Scales and Intervals

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Hey Folks,
happy to be here :)
Hope I found the right place for my question.

It's about Scales. I felt like I am long overdue with learning scales. So I wanted to try it.
I read a bit into it and found that those are the most basic scales with their steps:
Major: 1 - 1 - 1/2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1/2
Minor aeolic: 1 - 1/2 - 1 - 1 - 1/2 - 1 - 1
Minor harmonic: 1 - 1/2 - 1 - 1 - 1/2 - 1+1/2 - 1/2
Minor melodic: 1 - 1/2 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1/2

So far so good. But it isn't so easy for me to memorise all these steps and half steps. So I wanted to understand it in Intervals. This is what I came up with

DurMoll
aeolic
Moll
harm
Moll
melo
Perfec UnisonXxxX
Second Minor
Second MajorXxxX
Third Minorxxx
Third MajorX
FourthXxxX
FifthXXxX
Sixth minorXX
Sixth MajorXX
Seventh MinorXX
Seventh MajorXX

So basically the minor Third makes the scale Minor.
The Major Second, Fourth and Fifth are common to all scales.

So the most difficult thing is to remember which minor scale has a major/minor sixth and seventh.

Is that a reasonable approch?
Is the table correct?

I also noticed that there is not scale that has
minor third, sixth minor and seventh major.
Is the combination of sixth minor and seventh major rather used in Major-Scales?

Thanks for the feedback :)
 

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