On 19 Apr 2001, at 17:50, Jared Still wrote:
Date sent: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 17:50:27 -0800
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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In my experience, DBA's are scum and developers lobby the managers
with tales of how terrible life will be
I guess I'm saying that I can't recall starting with a completely
normalized database ( just 3rd normal form here ) and then denormalize if
we found it necessary for some reason.
We've usually have had some denormalization in as soon as we started
doing physical modeling. Sigh.