I am not a DBA, but I've seen the following pattern play out many times: the DBA says "normalize, normalize!" the developers say "normalizing is a pain, and in this particular case it doesn't buy us much, etc." and down the road the DBA turns out to have been right. Then the developers rediscover the fact that "normalized --> denormalized" is a much easier migration than "denormalized --> normalized" is, and there is much gnashing of teeth.
Note also that the fully denomalized form of the facts may well be one to two orders of magnitude larger than the fully normalized form. But, as I said, I'm not a DBA. -- M ----------------------------------------------------------- When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. -- 1920's parody of the maritime general prudential rule ------------------------------------------------------------ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-dev@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
