In my younger days I denormalized a database for performance reasons and have been paid for it dearly with increased maintenance costs. Adding enhanced capabilities and new functionality will render denormalization worse than useless quickly. --Rick
Frank Wiles
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On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:06:55 -0800
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> I can't tell you how many times I've seen this sort of thing. And
> the developers always tell me "Well, we denormalized for performance
> reasons ... "
Now that's rich. I don't think I've ever seen a database perform
worse after it was normalized. In fact, I can't even think of a
situation where it could!
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