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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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>Yep!
>One table.
>(I didn't read the rest of the messages yet, I just sat back on my comp and click on the first reply) :-)
Thank you.
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