Re: Any new thoughts on OTLT (One True Lookup Table)

jinglebells5555_at_yahoo.com (Jingle Bells) wrote in message news:<f804e152.0403030951.74912eba_at_posting.google.com>...
> I found a discussion in the archives that was a couple of years old.
> I'm one man development team working on a small website. I'm designing
> a database that will have scores of lookup tables and I'm thinking it
> will be much quicker for me to have one "generic" one than 40
> individual ones that are almost completely identical except for the
> content.
>
> Since I'm using postgres I've also thought about using inheritance but
> that ties me to postgres.
>
> Any thoughts?

would a bill of material be implement with one table for each part? Received on Sat Mar 20 2004 - 05:42:11 CET