Tesiny, Ed
EdTesiny at oasas.state.ny.us
Tue Apr 24 08:59:55 CDT 2007
Hi All, I'm not familiar enough with SQL Server but I have a question regarding what I call Code Tables. I use them a lot when I develop an application in Access, e.g., I'll have a table for counties i.e., county code and county name or Providers, Provider code and Provider Name. I have them as separate tables. I'm trying to make sense out of the tables and relationships "my" programmer created. He has one code table period! Below is a look as to how it is setup. dbo_tblCodes CodeType CodeId CodeName OrderOnForm Ethnicity 1 Puerto Rican 1 Ethnicity 2 Mexican 2 Ethnicity 3 Cuban 3 Ethnicity 4 Other Hispanic 4 Ethnicity 5 Hispanic, Not Specified/Known 5 Ethnicity 7 Not of Hispanic Origin 6 Ethnicity 9 Don't Know/No Answer 7 Gender 1 Male 10 Gender 2 Female 20 Health 1 Poor 5 Health 2 Fair 10 Health 3 Good 15 Health 4 Very Good 20 Health 5 Excellent 25 Health 9 Don't Know/No Answer 80 This is just a little bit of the table but I think you can see his "logic" here. Is this a common convention that developers use? Hate to see what else I'm going to find as I try to wade through this. TIA Ed Edward P. Tesiny Assistant Director for Evaluation Bureau of Evaluation and Practice Improvement New York State OASAS 1450 Western Ave. Albany, New York 12203-3526 Phone: (518) 485-7189 Fax: (518) 485-5769 Email: EdTesiny at oasas.state.ny.us