If you're only consideration is raw performance of lookups on text
fields, I suppose there might be some measureable performance advantage
in putting everything in one table, but I doubt you'd really notice the
difference. If you *did* do this, what is the significance of the
authorID field?
Nor
Hello all,
as usual in CS, there can be many ways to do the same thing.
For instance, I can uppercase a string in a function in POstgreSQL or I can
uppercase it before sending the query to the database. I am reading Bruce
Monjian's book right now (page 204, Functions & triggers/triggers), and I a
