Databases: going deeper

Lesson 03 · 13 min

Normalization and when to denormalize

Normal forms remove duplication. Denormalization brings it back on purpose for fast reads.

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Normalization answers one question: where each fact should live. If a fact is stored twice, sooner or later the copies drift apart.

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