On Mar 8, 3:26 am, Gareth McCumskey <[email protected]> wrote:
> We had a speed increase because we had a lot of text searches in the old
> system, all going through text fields where the same values were repeated
> over and over. Its therefore a lot faster to search a much smaller table,
> where the text fields are unique, and find the value once, then use an ID
> comparison, being much faster to match integers than text.


In sounds like you got a speed boost from doing intelligent indexing.
What you are describing sounds more like indexing than normalization,
at least to me.




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