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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org on behalf of Jared Still Sent: Thu 7/29/2004 4:05 PM To: Oracle-L Freelists Cc: Subject: Re: Normalization
I first saw this in the first editon of the Official Oracle DBA Hanbook, published by Oracle Press; the edition which covered Version 6 and the beginnings of Version 7.(circa 1993) I no longer have that book, but I remembered it being in the 8i edition. I found it on page 323, where it is attributed to ORACLE8: the Complete Reference. I don't know if it has disappeared from more recent editions.
The reason for bringing this all up is that 10 years ago, this was reasonable advice. In the systems I have worked with in the last two years, I have honestly never come accross a situation where denormalizing was ever needed. In fact, we have had several situations where the solution was to re-normalize an old denormalized design.
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