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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, David G. Johnston wrote:

> The point of a lookup table is to provide a unique list of authoritative
> values for some purpose. Kinda like an enum. But having the label serve as
> the unique value is reasonable - we only add surrogates for optimization.

David,

The industrytypes table has 26 rows, the statustypes table has 8 rows. Your
explanation suggests that for this database adding a PK to each table adds
little, if anything.

Regards,

Rich