Ashish Karalkar wrote:
Thanks Brent for your replay,
What about the Disadvantages, Performance issues?
As far as I'm aware, performance is the only real disadvantage.
I tend to break DB design into stages:
ER modelling to define the entities/relationships the DB needs to
store/represent
Normalize this to maximise data integrity & minimise duplication/redundancy
De-normalise to meet performance & access requirements.
In the latter stage, views are generally used, unless there are
performance restrictions,
when a de-normalised schema may be applied.
Cheers,
Brent
