On 3/9/2010 8:19 AM, Mitch Pirtle wrote:
For the record, the conversation was at ClassMates.Com waaaaaay back around 1997. I thought the guy was a total loon. However the more I think about it, the more I realize he was just ahead of his time. Back then we still needed those integers for all the bazillion JOIN operations across tables with more than fifty million rows each... As everyone starts to denormalize their data models however, this will become a bigger and bigger headache, as all your logic is tied to those numbers when all that is really important to YOU is the post's title, the user's username, component's name, etc.
So full normalization is no longer the non plus ultra of database design? _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation
