>>>Probably not, because I did exactly what Erik said, Well if this is what is called normalization... :)
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>>Nick,
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>>Normalization can be summed up as "All the data in only one place and in the right place".
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>Thank you Jim, that "and" is the keyword here.

Nick,

That's the key word that most normalization haters don't understand. Personally I find it fun to watch some folks who beat the "Normalization is not always a good thing" and then post a fully normalized design as an example. John is not one of the folks I am referring to here.

I've been in threads where there is someone who just berates normalization to the hilt and then uses a normalized design as their example for why normalization is not always a good thing.

The best definitiion for normalization that I have ever seen was from Chris Date when he said, "Normalization is formalized common sense."