Re: Low Performance for big hospital server ..

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:06:55 -0800
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:

> I can't tell you how many times I've seen this sort of thing.   And
> the developers always tell me "Well, we denormalized for performance
> reasons ... "

  Now that's rich.  I don't think I've ever seen a database perform
  worse after it was normalized.  In fact, I can't even think of a
  situation where it could!

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   Frank Wiles <frank@wiles.org>
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