Re: Design question...

On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 10:18, Grabowy, Chris wrote:
> To simplify my question, if I am creating a STATE table to hold all the
> states of the US, should I create it like this...

Chris,
  We use a state_id field which is a number.Usually you want to use numbers or integers as primary keys, but since my guess is you'll have about 50 rows ;-) I don't think the performance will be to bad if you want to keep the code as a char. Of course that also depends on how hard you think the table will be hit

HTH, -Brian

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