One always have to be careful to measure the right thing.
Dave
Frank Wiles wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:06:55 -0800 Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
I can't tell you how many times I've seen this sort of thing. And
the developers always tell me "Well, we denormalized for performance
reasons ... "
Now that's rich. I don't think I've ever seen a database perform
worse after it was normalized. In fact, I can't even think of a
situation where it could!
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