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Questionusing @@IDENTITY (or nething like this)for char datatype(sql server) Pin
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Colin Angus Mackay18-Sep-05 20:26
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Leslie Sanford wrote:
to create one table with one field and three records representing the three values. In a second table, I create a data relation between the multiple choice field and the table with the three records. Therefore, the field in the second table must have one of the three values.

My preference would be to normalise that. Unless the possible values are integers or single characters I'd want to kave an id column.

The Main table has a column that is an id to the Lookup table. The Lookup table has two columns, an ID column (a tiny int, because that is all you need) and a Value column (of what ever type you need).

The reason for the tiny int is so that the reference takes up as little room in the Main table as possible (I'm guessing there is going to be a lot more rows in there than in the Lookup table) which will improve database performance if a lot of rows have to be accessed as they will take less space and the database will be able to read them from disk faster (and disk access is usually the bottle neck in database systems)

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