Thursday, 4 April 2013

Look-up tables design

1- No to a single look-up table:
   a - Scalability.
   b - Data Maintainability (Error prone)

2- Integrity on deletion:
   a - Deletion stored procedure with the logic to restrict deletion for consumed records.
   (The reason that foreign keys are not enough since typically they reside within a single DB; however, references are usually consumed from other DBs.) [My recommendation]
   b- Don't delete: Just mark as deleted or add a status per record to be defined by the business.
    

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