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"Anton Versteeg" <Anton_Versteeg_at_nl.ibm> wrote in message
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The point is that you avoid having fields with null values and thereby all those funny little semantical compexities that they cause.
> Overnormalizing usually creates unworkable, bad performing database
> designs.
That sound a bit like the definition of over-normalizing and would therefore be tautologically true. ;-)