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Re: Avoiding compound data in software and system designby Jenda (Abbot) |
on Apr 21, 2010 at 11:26 UTC ( [id://836026]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
It's the same thing with compound data and database normalization. What's atomic/normalized in one situation is compound/denormalized in another. Even if the data look exactly the same. And you can't tell without context. Sure, you should stop and think about the level of atomicity at which to store some data, but there is no hard rule. Jenda
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