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.

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