Re: [PERFORM] Denormalization WAS: Low Performance for big hospital

2005-01-06 Thread Frank Wiles
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:38:45 -0800 Josh Berkus wrote: > Frank, > > > 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! > > Oh, there are some.For example, Primer's issues

Re: [PERFORM] Denormalization WAS: Low Performance for big hospital server ..

2005-01-06 Thread Josh Berkus
Frank, > 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! Oh, there are some.For example, Primer's issues around his dating database; it turned out that a fully normalized de