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Re:Columnar Storage Is Normalization by sgarland on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @10:31AM (#47864194)
I think parent was saying it’s a benefit, not the original purpose. If I store a FK to a table containing my company’s corporate address, that is a tremendous savings in storage (and memory pressure), and it also eliminates update anomalies.
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Re:Columnar Storage Is Normalization by cmrdporcupine on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @11:38AM (#47865142)
And other people are saying it may not always have that effect.

Normalization ultimately boils down to breaking your data down into the most elemental and simplest "facts" about them, and its greatest value is how it allows and encourages more flexible and disparate ways of looking at the same information.

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