RE: Large databases

• Lyndon Tiu <ltiu_at_alumni.sfu.ca> wrote:
  > Question to all you practical DBA's out there: Is is slower or faster
  > to normalize or not?
  

in what kind of a database, for what kind of an application?

the standard answer "it depends" applies here.;-)

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