[Tagging] football or soccer ?

[John F. Eldredge]

Well, in this particular case, the issue was regional preferences about whether to call a particular game football, association football, soccer, etc., and the reason for using a link to an associated table was so that multiple names could map to the same field value.



-------Original Email-------
Subject :Re: [Tagging] football or soccer ?
From  :mailto:osm at inbox.org
Date  :Mon Aug 02 10:28:34 America/Chicago 2010


On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
> If I wanted the list of colors to be controlled and
> finite I'd use a check constraint.

By the way, if I were going to use a separate table for the list of
colors, for instance for performance purposes, I'd still use the name
of the color as the key, thus avoiding doing a join every single time
you do a select.  The lookup would only be necessary when doing adds,
in order to check the foreign key constraint.  The lookup table on
color would have only one column, the color name.

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