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> >From: Kevin Hunter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:59 PM
> >To: John Smith
> >Cc: MySQL General List
> >Subject: Re: Normalization vs. Performance
> >
> >At 2:11pm -0400 on Tue, 26 Aug 2008, John Smith wrote:
>
>-Original Message-
>From: Kevin Hunter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:59 PM
>To: John Smith
>Cc: MySQL General List
>Subject: Re: Normalization vs. Performance
>
>At 2:11pm -0400 on Tue, 26 Aug 2008, John Smith wrote:
>> So
> > So how bad is this? The mentioned query will be the query which is used
> > the most in my application (yes, it is going to be a forum).
> > Should I break normalization and save the date of the root in each node
row?
>
> My recommendation is no. Normalization is a Good Thing, and you'll be
>
At 2:11pm -0400 on Tue, 26 Aug 2008, John Smith wrote:
> So how bad is this? The mentioned query will be the query which is used
> the most in my application (yes, it is going to be a forum).
> Should I break normalization and save the date of the root in each node row?
My recommendation is no. N