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From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
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Subject: Re: Lookup tables
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On Tue, 4 Feb 2025, Ron Johnson wrote:

> Does your lookup table just have one column?  (That's what your question
> seems to imply, but that makes no sense, since the whole point of a lookup
> table is to store some sort of a code in the "child" table instead of the
> whole text of the description.)

Ron,

Yes, each has a single column of type names, industrytypes and statustypes.
I've always used the descriptive names in queries.

Rich