What is denormalization and when would you go for it?

Answer Posted / abarna(cts)

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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