Re: About the importance of normalization

Juan Pardillos wrote:

>after studying normalization, I'm a bit confused. I think that
>normalization is not really so important, as if you build your
>relational model in a good way, there is no need to consider
>normalization at all. Is normalization theory really important?.

Not all databases are normalised. If you look at something like data warehousing, it's pretty common to denormalise (so ive read.)

Also normalisation adds the ability to relate data in a more efficient manner, otherwise you may as well use a spreadsheet. Received on Thu Nov 14 2002 - 23:55:46 CET