On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 11:37, Singer, Phillip (P.W.) wrote: > The reason for bringing this all up is that 10 years ago, this was reasonable > advice. I would have to disagree with that, also. :) The first system I worked on in Oracle was one we built from scratch. It was fairly well normalized, with the exception of a section we neophytes couldn't quite figure out how to normalize properly. It performed rather well. This was in 1994. Jared ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------