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Re: To Normalize or Not to Normalize

• To: Frank Richards <frank@t...>, "Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Subject: Re: To Normalize or Not to Normalize
• From: Tech Rams <techmailing@y...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:04:15 -0800 (PST)
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I think we can mitigate the risk by creating an
wrapper (dont beat me up...this is just for time being
...while background cleaning work is going on) that
will allow a normalized external world to communicate
with the denormalized internal world.

-rams

--- Frank Richards <frank@t...> wrote:

> Well, what I'd hope (probably fruitlessly) to hear
> was
> 
> 1.that the denormalization had been done for
> performance, and could 
> likely go away after some benchmarking, and
> 
> 2. That the names had made sense on an even earlier
> version of the 
> product and had been retained to comfort (now long
> gone) old timers. 
> Thus the names too could be fixed.
> 
> I'd settle for hearing that "it was very late that
> night." or "We 
> thought it made sense but found out too late that we
> were wrong." At 
> least then I could do what I wanted with a safe
> feeling.
> 
> If I don't find anything, well, the chance that
> cleanup will become a 
> can of worms is a budget and schedule risk factor.
> And of course even 
> with a solid answer budget and schedule.
> 
> Frank
> 
> 
> 
> Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> 
> >That is certainly a good first step.   Given the
> system, 
> >that information may or may not exist, may be
> contradictory, 
> >and has to be factored into other intelligence (eg,
> conversion 
> >costs and opportunities).  
> >
> >What would you be looking for?
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> 
>
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