Re: DB Design Principles for RDBMS

From: RayD <member23441_at_dbforums.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 21:48:46 +0000
Message-ID: <2641691.1047592126_at_dbforums.com>

Not to mention that a lot of people misuse the term denormalize. Storing derived or aggregate data is not denormilization. To the contrary, the tables derived data is stored in are usually perfectly normalized. They just contain derived data, like an account balance or something.

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Ray DiMarcello


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