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| From: | Martijn Tonies | Date: | November 17 2008 5:12pm |
| Subject: | Re: normalised designs: customer database | ||
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> If all you want to do is to restrict a field to certain values, and aren't > concerned with cascading operations, is a set more efficient than a foreign > key? A Set or Enum? I can understand "enum"s, but sets are evil. Martijn Tonies Database Workbench Lite for MySQL - FREE developer tool for MySQL! Upscene Productions http://www.upscene.com My thoughts: http://blog.upscene.com/martijn/ Database development questions? Check the forum! http://www.databasedevelopmentforum.com