When I added a new page that needed the user to select a country from a Drop Down List I populated that list from a database table of countries that I have used in several other projects.

I fill the DDL with a little simple code behind. That's the way I've done it for years. It seems "natural" to me.

Why then does the BeerHouse have a long string in Helpers class called _countries? Is this just an arbitry style issue? Or is there some other advantage? I couldn't find a discussion of this development choice in the book.

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I have another design issue. The BeerHouse has a BLL function for _addedDate. I have always used a trigger in the table to record when an update occurs. Like so:

ALTER TRIGGER [trgUpdateOperaCompany] ON [dbo].[oh_OperaCompany]
FOR INSERT, UPDATE
AS
BEGIN
    SET NOCOUNT ON;
    UPDATE oh_OperaCompany
    SET UPDATE_DATE = getdate()
        WHERE PK_OPERACOMPANY_ID =
            (SELECT PK_OPERACOMPANY_ID FROM inserted)
END

I copied this style from Siebel. Again this seems more "natural" to me. In these two cases as well as others I suspect I have taken a databse centric approach. Am I just out of date?

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