Thank you, Sergey. You point about referential integrity is important. So is the point of how DBAs look at his issue.
>If you use one table, you cannot use referential integrity(RI). From DBA point of view each lookup list should be a separate table with RI enforced. What exactly do you win by having only 1 table?
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