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                                    | pablowilksStarting Member
 
 
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                                            |  Posted - 2012-05-29 : 00:14:57 
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                                            | hi therei am taking a beginners course in database design.why is normalization so important If anyone has any thoughts / feedbackthanks |  |  
                                    | nigelrivettMaster Smack Fu Yak Hacker
 
 
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                                          |  Posted - 2012-05-29 : 10:04:14 
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                                          | What are your thoughts.I suspect the idea is to get you thinking about it rather than getting suggestions from a forum.The last sentence gives you a clue about what to think about. It wants you to discuss the risks involved in not including users and thinking about how much cost would be involved in reducing that.As a start an obvious issue is that you could end up with a product that doesn't really meet many users needs against the difficulty in getting sufficient users to respond truthfully.==========================================Cursors are useful if you don't know sql.SSIS can be used in a similar way.Beer is not cold and it isn't fizzy. |  
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                                    | nigelrivettMaster Smack Fu Yak Hacker
 
 
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                                          |  Posted - 2012-05-31 : 15:30:05 
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                                          | Umm?==========================================Cursors are useful if you don't know sql.SSIS can be used in a similar way.Beer is not cold and it isn't fizzy. |  
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