> Martijn Tonies wrote:
>>> database. I would also bet that 80% of the people who are actually
>>> writing queries with that many joins don't have a solid grasp of the
>>> fundamental principles of relational database design.
>>
>> Why not? Normalizing gets you -more- tables, not less.
>
> And normalizing is a goal in itself? I've seen plenty of "normalized"
> databases which have become a big mess because of the unnecessarily
> complex queries you needed to do a relatively simple job.
No, it's not a goal in itself, that's not what I said.
> A lot of the "enterprise level" features can be useful in certain cases,
Normalizing data has nothing to do with "enterprise level", it's a matter
if keeping your data consistent, being able to create proper constraints
at the database, for example.
> but it seems that a lot of times they are just used simply to use them. I
> cannot find justification for making databases unnecessarily complex,
> using subqueries when a simple join is all you need, using views,
> functions, stored procedures in cases that don't require such features,
> etc.
>
> I agree that a lot of people requiring more powerful hard- and software
> for their application are simply forgetting that they were supposed to
> produce a working application and not the most normalized database with
> all the fancy views and other stuff.
With regards,
Martijn Tonies
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