Phillip.Putzback (5/5/2014)
Do you use a naming convention for lookup tables so report writers have a way of noticing them before they go create their own? Their own schema or prefix perhaps?
I agree with other poster who suggested using a separate database for this. That is a good idea. So is using a specific schema. Either of these two approaches is clean and manageable. Prefixes on object names are just ugly for a number of reasons and should be avoided.
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