Francisco H Tapia
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Thu Mar 25 15:18:37 CST 2004
DWUTKA at marlow.com said the following on 3/25/2004 11:53 AM: >What's impractical about Lookup stuff in a table design? > > 1) When you query the table you're querying against some text... instead of ID's... while there is no one right way.. you're adding confusion. 2) when you want to add additonal columns so that the sub table can have it's own set of attributes because the system has "grown" you'll need to revisit the table to make the changes for the FE, but if you're using some sort of BE/FE setup then you can't do anything until all the users are out :) -- -Francisco