Re: good database design

[Ian Sales (DBA)]

Tim Hayes wrote:

>I disagree completely.
>
>I prefer to have regard to the statement of requirement, which in this case
>is a concern over performance. If following conventional design rules
>creates performance issues, then performance related issues come first when
>considering design.
>
>  
>
- personally, I would consider integrity, and then reliability, above 
performance. But then 80% of any performance hit is in the application 
code. Design a database that gives you confidence in the data it stores 
first and foremost.

- ian

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