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.
