>>>>>"After further review the call is reversed"
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>>>>>Went into PowerDesigner and pulled up an old diagram and looked at it. You were correct, sir. I'm gonna think up a better one and post it tomorrow.
>>>>>
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>>>>If it helps, I have yet to EVER see a data design situation that required denormalization for anything other than performance.
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>>>What about fault tolerance ? Hereby I mean redundant data that can be used for recovering purposes when a database crashes.
>>>
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>>Replication is replication, and has nothing to do with data design, IMO.
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>Replication ??? I was talking about denormalization and redundant data. Yes this has got nothing to do with replication.
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>Walter,

If you are storing data in an alternate location for crash recovery, I think that qualifies as replication, no?