What is de-normalization and when do you do it?

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What is de-normalization and when do you do it?..

Answer / swapna

As the name indicates, denormalization is the reverse
process of normalization. It's the controlled introduction
of redundancy in to the database design. It helps improve
the query performance as the number of joins could be
reduced.

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What is de-normalization and when do you do it?..

Answer / praveen

Denormalization is a technique to move from higher to lower
normal forms of database modeling in order to speed up
database access.

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What is de-normalization and when do you do it?..

Answer / praveen

If the database developer might want a reversal of
normalization to improve performance is called
denormalization.

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