Enums or Tables?

Question

I am making this a community wiki, as I would appreciate people\'s approach and not necessarily an answer.

I am in the situation where I have a lot of lookup type data

Answer 1

I think an enum is a bad idea. Just given the type of data you show, it's subject to change. Better to have a data base table with ID/Min/Max/Description fields that you load when your app initializes.