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Is Normalizing a Database Just Manual Compression?

July 13, 2010 7:57:55.012

Michael explores the idea:

But it's the 21st century and it dawned on me that normalization is the futile act of trying to manually compress data. If you break up your data records in to its related component parts to -avoid duplicate data- then you're literally trying to re-invent compression ..badly.

posted by James Robertson

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