Re: Just wondering Lookup Tables

2003-03-21 Thread James Blaha
CF'ers Thank you all for your fast posts! Thats what I was thinking but it's always nice to hear it from others! Have a great weekend! Regards, JB Mosh Teitelbaum wrote: >Separate tables, because you should be relating those tables to your "main" >tables in the DB. For example, for a user da

RE: Just wondering Lookup Tables

2003-03-21 Thread Barney Boisvert
If it's not related to other information in the database and don't change, I'd put them into a file (CFM, TXT, XML, whatver) and then cache them in the APPLICATION scope. If it's not even application dependant (like states), then put it in the SERVER scope. If it's application dependant data (pro

RE: Just wondering Lookup Tables

2003-03-21 Thread Mosh Teitelbaum
Separate tables, because you should be relating those tables to your "main" tables in the DB. For example, for a user database where you also store the user's state, you might have a DB design like: Users xState - UserI

Re: Just wondering Lookup Tables

2003-03-21 Thread Bryan Stevenson
seperate tables...I've tried a universal lookup table with classifications and it made FK relationships impossible in some situations...didn't like that ;-) If your universal tabel was huge the lookup for an individual select box would take longer as well (more records = slower query) Bryan Steve