Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 08/09/06 22:16

Christian H (no@ni.na) writes:
> The other solution , as far as we can see, is to put all values into 1
> table, and use CustomerID=-1 or null when the item is a System-defined
> value, and not a customer-defined value.
>
> DropDownValues_CustomerAndSystemDefined
> ----------------------------------------
> ID
> CustomerID
> Name
> Value

Your description is very abstract, and I might change my mind if knew
more about what's in this table. But from the description you have
given, this latter solution is what I would prefer.

The presumption here is that the values really describe the same
entity.


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