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[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's an ENUM and other people have to read this fucking codebase too, Brian!

[–] Olap@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I've a DBA who would insist on this being in a dimension table and using a foreign key constraint instead of just a fucking string

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago

I like your DBA!

Users probably don't.