Lookup Tables Best Practices: DB Tables… or Enumerations

Question

If we have to store the available positions at a company (i.e. Manager, Team Lead, ... etc). What are the best practices for storing it? I have two opinions with comments...

Answer 1

If you can keep them synchronized I don't think there is much of a reason not to have both. When I was developing some state-machine functionality with a DB store it made things a lot easier to have an enumeration of the available object states within my IDE.

I wrote myself a little EnumGenerator Visual Studio Addin a while back that creates an Enumeration code snippet in C# from a the ID and DESC columns of a DB Tablet you select from right within the IDE. I haven't released it because it was the first time I'd worked with VS Addins and it was pretty junky but I bet somebody with addin/code generation experience could take the idea and run with it.