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Re: Normalization

From: Jonathan Gennick <jonathan_at_gennick.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 12:37:00 -0400
Message-ID: <192884268961.20040729123700@gennick.com>


Thursday, July 29, 2004, 11:32:22 AM, Paul Baumgartel (treegarden_at_yahoo.com) wrote: PB> Today, I always introduce redundancy into the model whenever it can PB> eliminate an SQL join, but not always.

"whenever" but "not always" is kind of a contradiction in itself.

I recall one performance problem, involving a query to lookup records, that I solved by using a trigger to store a copy of a column into another table, thus eliminating the one join that was in a query. In that one case though, you could easily have argued that the underlying design was flawed, and that the two tables, which were one-to-one, should have been one table. Or at least, the frequently queried columns should all have been together in the same table.

Please don't misconstrue me here. I'm not a fan of denormalization. In one instance though, many years ago, I did use the technique to make some users very, very happy.

Best regards,

Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are http://Gennick.com * 906.387.1698 * mailto:jonathan@gennick.com

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