Best practices for expressions: flag and set analysis

[alexandernatale]

Hello everybody,

I'm reading Kimball's book (The data warehouse toolkit) and in one of the first practical examples the creation of "talking" flags instead of binary (Y / N or 0/1).

In the best practices in QS instead it is expressly indicated not to use textual flags.

Here is a part of the text:

"Rather than decoding fl ags into understandable labels in the BI application, we prefer
that decoded values ​​be stored in the database so they're consistently available to all
users regardless of their BI reporting environment or tools. "

How do you position yourself on this diatribe?