Re: Normalizing vs. Denormalizing
Date: 1996/04/25
Message-ID: <4lp398$b1o_at_news01.aud.alcatel.com>#1/1
>In article <4km5s7$4pl_at_maverick.tad.eds.com>
>>: to spend time and effort down the road (probably very soon)on your existing
>>: system. RDMS such as Oracle are designed to handle normalization very
>>: well even with the basic configuration and with a help of a good DBA you
>>: can design a 3rd or even 4th deg. normalize system without any significant
>>: performance problem. Consider demormalization only when the performance
>>
>>Bull. Accepting an answer like this requires little thought from the
>>acceptor, of course. Unfortunately, as a result, little thought will have
>>gone into the use for which the database is being designed. Normalizing
>>just because "it's what you should do" is really stupid. I wouldn't make
>>my design decisions based on what Oracle (et al) are supposed to do, but
>>rather on what use my customers will be putting their data to.
>
-Austin Received on Thu Apr 25 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST