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Holger Baer wrote:
>
> The advantages of FBI:
>
> - You save a little space
> - You don't need to know that there exists a shadow column, so writing
> efficient ad hoc queries is more likely to happen
> - you don't need some trigger mimic to make sure that the column is
> properly
> populated which leads to less code to worry about
>
> disadvantages:
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> None that I'd loose sleep about
>
Another way of looking at it :)
-- Regards, Frank van BortelReceived on Thu Jul 14 2005 - 14:07:08 CDT
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