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The myth of over-normalization

Posted Monday, July 21, 2008 4:36 PM | 24 Comments

I’ve always been suspicious of denormalizing an OLTP database. Denormalisation is a strange activity that is supposed to take place after a database has been normalized, and is assumed to be necessary in order to reduce the number of joins in queries Read More

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VB.NET: The Ugly Duckling

Posted Tuesday, July 08, 2008 11:35 AM | 11 Comments

One of the greatest pleasures of programming in C# is that wonderful, giddy, feeling of superiority one has over VB.NET programmers. In C#, one has a vague awareness that what one is doing has elegance and style. It must be the effect of the curly braces. Read More

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