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"Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...> writes: > I seldom see fully-normalized > databases because the overhead of getting and > opening tables, creating the view, etc. can be > prohibitive vs the maintenance of denormalized > data. Otherwise, I would agree. These aren't > legacy databases. They are practical ones where > performance considerations dominate maintenance. I seldom see databases denormalized because of credible performance considerations. Most of the time it's because the DBA or the users can't deal with so much abstraction - different parts of a relation being in different tables - or can't be bothered to write client code to reassemble hierarchical structures from the results of a JOIN. Ari.
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