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		remram on Nov 7, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A terrible schema from a clueless programmer That's not what normalization is. You're thinking of deduplication or compression. This table is normalized as per usual database terminology.

ghayes on Nov 7, 2021 [–]

But if it’s guaranteed to be 1:1, why? The two implementations (normalized and denormalized) in that case should be completely isomorphic, quirks of the DB engine aside.

remram on Nov 7, 2021 | [–]

Why what? I don't understand what you are asking.

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