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Re:A terrible schema from a clueless programmer by wvenable on Sunday November 07, 2021 @01:30PM (#29142065)
Using space to avoid joins will not necessarily improve performance in an RDBMS -- it might even make it worse.
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Re:A terrible schema from a clueless programmer by philliphaydon on Sunday November 07, 2021 @11:09PM (#29146060)
The inverse of your statement is also true. Denormalizing the database to avoid duplicating data will not necessarily improve performance in an RDBMS - it might even make it worse.
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