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Posted by Doug on 03/13/06 21:31
"You seen to suggest that performance should be the deciding factor. My
view is that Normal Form is a better criteria. In any event, the "
Real world stuff. I've played some fairly significant games violating
all sorts of normalization because the "right" way wasn't fast enough.
Early on I tried to teach the customer that it was in their best long
term interests to suffer 3 second response times. The danged customers
kept saying "FIX IT."
I've built systems to create and guarantee unique keys. It is a giant
PITA as you have to learn specificities about the particular engine in
place to figure out how unique keys could be created. As an example, i
read about 3 milliseconds on this forum. I didn't know that, and, it
turns out I don't really care.
For the past 15 years or so, I try to find the EASIEST way to get
guaranteed unique keys from the engine. And the engines of today all
seem to have them, just like most modern cars have parking brakes, and
I don't need to carry a large rock around any more.
regards,
doug
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