Re: One to One relationships
From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 01:58:30 GMT
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Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2003 01:58:30 GMT
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"stu" <smcgouga_at_nospam.co.uk> wrote in message news:b8aqfl$snq$1$8300dec7_at_news.demon.co.uk...
> My uni lecturer once said do not do physical design (i.e. do not denormalise
> for speed). Let advances in hardware benefit your correctly designed DB.
> But if I design databases like this and my competition designs faster DBs
> who gets the work? I know this is a theory NG but if there are faster,
> different methods to do things we should look at those right?
I think this is a core philosophical issue: which is more important, correctness or speed? It is my experience that most people will say "speed."
It kind of bums me out, because I prefer correctness.
Marshall Received on Sat Apr 26 2003 - 03:58:30 CEST