Re: flattened tables with normalized tables

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:08:18PM -0700, Dennis Gearon wrote:
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> About regular views, how does that speed things up, other than the initial
> SQL interpretation of the view not needing to be done?

I didn't mean to imply that views would speed things up -- I was
merely suggesting them as an alternative to your "flattened table"
if part of its purpose would be to simplify queries.  You might
want to perform some experiments to see if the performance gains
from a materialized view are worth the extra complexity.

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Michael Fuhr
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