RE: Restricting the range of values in a field

Aidan,

please remember us when the list of "2-to-5 values that never change" change. and we tell you "we told you so".

and why do you care if the developer will get mad? he's wrong. you know, I know it and everyone on this list knows it.

foreign keys are the final answer.

that is all.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 4:27 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

>Yes. Read up on check constraints.

Thanks for everyone's suggestions and code. I'll go with the check constraint in this instance because 10-or-so lookup tables with 2-to-5 values in each that will never change seems like overkill. Plus, the other developer here isn't a fan of lookup tables where the range of values are known to be static and he'd shout at me ;-)

Thanks again!

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Aidan Whitehall <aidanwhitehall_at_fairbanks.co.uk>
Macromedia ColdFusion Developer
Fairbanks Environmental Ltd  +44 (0)1695 51775

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