I believe the 'wordiness' of the article has left me confused as to exactly what the articles author's opinion is about lookup tables. Is he making the case that no lookup tables should be used or that no lookup tables that combine multiple objects be used? At the beginning of the article he listed 3 independent lookup tables and then further down he made the case that these 3 tables could be combined into a single lookup table since they shared the same structure. Is the author stating that the use of lookup tables as defined at the beginning with the 3 individual tables that contain 1 specific type of lookup value only not be used, that a table that is a combination of these 3 should not be used or that neither of these approaches should be used?

If someone could help clarify this for me I would be most appreciative.

Thanks

Ed