Re: Lookup tables

On Tuesday, February 4, 2025, Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Feb 2025, David G. Johnston wrote:
>
> The point of a lookup table is to provide a unique list of authoritative
>> values for some purpose. Kinda like an enum. But having the label serve as
>> the unique value is reasonable - we only add surrogates for optimization.
>>
>
> David,
>
> The industrytypes table has 26 rows, the statustypes table has 8 rows. Your
> explanation suggests that for this database adding a PK to each table adds
> little, if anything.
>

It’s the FK side where the cost savings are experienced.

David J.