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

Use both, And you should investigate the CodeDOM. using this you can write code generation routines that allow the compilation process to automatically generate an assembly or class with these enums in it, by reading the database. This way you get to let the database drive, but you are not making calls to the database everytime you access an instance of the enum...