Re: Normalization : To Codd or not
From: Lawrence James <James.Lawrence_at_epamail.epa.gov>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 22:50:13 GMT
Message-ID: <James.Lawrence.6.0011D6C8_at_epamail.epa.gov>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 1994 22:50:13 GMT
Message-ID: <James.Lawrence.6.0011D6C8_at_epamail.epa.gov>
In article <38oi6b$10e_at_usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> axy7_at_po.CWRU.Edu (Adithya Yaga) writes:
>From: axy7_at_po.CWRU.Edu (Adithya Yaga)
>Subject: Normalization : To Codd or not
>Date: 27 Oct 1994 15:49:31 GMT
>How improtant is normalisation in real world applications involving
>extremely large amounts of data with complex navigations? At the risk of
>offending Codd, when can I ignore normalisaton to avoid poor
>performance.
>Comments/Real experiences/etc. will be highly appreciated!
>-thanks.
>post or e-mail to kyr_at_safco.com
If you don't want to normalize why are you using a relational database? Network model will perform better with denormalized data.
Lawrence..... Received on Thu Nov 10 1994 - 23:50:13 CET