C# and SQLServer normalizing large sets of Urls

Question

I have many tables in the database that have at least one column that contains a Url. And these are repeated a lot through-out the database. So I normalize them to a dedicated t

Answer 1

I think you could use the IGNORE_DUP_KEY option on your index. If you set IGNORE_DUP_KEY = ON on the index of the URL column, the duplicate values are simply ignored and the rest are inserted appropriately.