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From: davidm@cimshop.UUCP (David Masterson)
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Subject: Re: Recent postings to comp.databases...
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Date: 2 Aug 89 00:33:40 GMT
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In-reply-to: larry@xanadu.uucp's message of 31 Jul 89 22:02:07 GMT

>2) normalization
>donovan hsieh had it right when he said that you have to pay attention
>to both consistency *and* performance.  i have seen too many people fail
>when building applications on relational dbms's because they were too
>restrictive in their thinking.  they weren't willing to denormalize their
>db designs to meet application performance requirements.
>
Would you say, though, that it is more appropriate to start with a database
that well constructed (ie. normalized) and work toward an efficient design or
vice versa?  This, of course, assumes that a person is willing to "wreck" his
well built database for the lowly consideration of performance.  ;-)

David Masterson
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