>Joel, > >if you want to have your database relational to 3rd normal form then yes you >should have separate tables for all of your lookups. Databases are designed >to work well with joins of that nature and if you build your indexes >correctly you should be ok. A lot of people forget to add indexes on >foreign key columns which will obviously hurt performance. > >For improved performance you could build views that join the tables >together. Views are faster than running plain old select queries and doing >all the joins. > >-- >Gary Gilbert >http://www.garyrgilbert.com/blog
Gary -- Thanks for the input. I have not utilized views, but I think with this project I will definitely look into those as I expect to have quite a few of these regular kind of relationships between the tables. Thanks again for the explanation! Joel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72&catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:288710 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
