====== Table Types ======

Within the **Charity Radar** database, all tables use the ''Aria'' storage engine.  There are four types of table:

=== Lookup Tables ===

Tables that are used to hold static data such as country codes or types of email address.

=== Standard Tables ===

Tables that hold data that changes but where we don't want to record changes to the data within the database.

=== Link Tables ===

Standard tables used to link two other tables to form a many-to-many relationship.

=== Versioned Tables ===

Tables that record the changes to the data including when it was changed, who changed it and why it was changed.  See [[versioning]].