Re: Daatabase

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:22:40 +0200
Message-ID: <de1g39$b2u$1@news4.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>

HansF wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 08:20:55 -0700, pri interested us by writing:
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>>can anybody tell me a situation where a normalization RDBMS is not good?

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> Personal opinion - every design should be normalized, but the
> implementation can be denormalized to achieve specific goals such as
> security or performance.
>

Hear, hear!
Could we lift that out of context:
Hans said: "every design should be normalized", and I can only agree.

He also said: "implementation can be denormalized to achieve specific goals". I can only agree.

Normalization is a modeling thing, denormalization a technical.

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel

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Received on Thu Aug 18 2005 - 03:22:40 CDT