On Aug 24, 2007, at 11:36 AM, johnf wrote:
> I sometimes create table of list items (normally just a string).
>
> listitem1
> listitem2
> listitem3
>
> I then use the table to populate pulldowns.
>
> I did simple stuff like this in VFP. I could have added a PK but
> it was not
> required all it did was provide a static list. But if the client
> wanted to
> add or change the list I had ability to make changes immediately
> without
> change code.
How did you store their choice? If you had a thousand records that
used 'listitem2', did you repeat 'listitem2' a thousand times? What
if the name for 'listitem2' needed to be updated?
This is just a bad design. I'm sure that it was OK for some things,
but Dabo certainly won't work this way.
-- Ed Leafe
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