Try writing apps for cellphones and both space and time become important again!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Slavin" <slav...@hearsay.demon.co.uk> To: "General Discussion of SQLite Database" <sqlite-users@sqlite.org> Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 3:33 PM Subject: Re: [sqlite] Denormalisation > > On 27 Jul 2009, at 10:44pm, CityDev wrote: > >> Over the intervening years I can't ever remember denormalising data >> (even >> when dealing with eg 13 million insurance customers in a table). Is >> it OK >> nowadays to say always aim to be fully normalised - modern RDBMSs >> are >> usually powerful enough to cope with most anything? > > Performance/space/time/money payoff calculation. The smallest > mundane > laptop these days comes with a 120 Gig hard disk. No real need to > economise on file size, so if you need fast processing you might use > lots of space. On the other hand if you need to cart your entire > dataset around on a USB Flash drive you might want to save space. > > The advantage is that most programmers don't have to care which way > they go: they write the program any way it occurs to them. The > disadvantage of this is that when they hit the first job where the > difference does matter, they don't know what to do about it. > > Simon. > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
