Is normalizing the gender table going too far?

Question

I am not a database guy, but am trying to clean up another database. So my question is would normalizing the gender table be going too far?

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Answer 1

I'm also not a database guy but I do it. It gives me the possibility to assure that only the genders are entered, that are valid (referencial integrity) and I can also use it to populate the selection control.