Explain the difference between Translate & Prompt tables.
What are the occasions when to use Translate values instead
of Prompt table? What is the advantage of one over the other?

Answer Posted / gg

The Translate table option houses strings of length < 5.
The translate table values are readily available reducing
the trip to db everytime .
The transalte table values are faster in performance.
The translate table option is used when # of options is less

The Prompt Table values houses strings of any lenght < 255.
The prompt table values can also bring other related
information to the page.
The prompt table values are fetched by making a trip to DB
everytime.
The prompt table values are useful for multi-lingual setup.

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