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>One.
>Could you imagine what could happen if you need to change ONE field and you have 250 tables?
>If you have proper index the query will be very fast.
>(That is only for programmers point of view. DBAs could tell you more about statistic, maintenance, searching a value in ALL 250 tables etc :-)
Thank you for your message, Borislav.
So you vote for keeping all the multiple lookup tables in one physical table, right?
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