May 12, 2008 9:00 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Data integrity,
Data Normalization,
SQLBack in the old days one of the big reasons that people enforced such strict rules on data normalization was because it would greatly increase the amount of information you could fit on the hard drive. Back when everything was measured in kilobytes or megabytes storing redundant information...
December 13, 2007 8:00 AM
Posted by: Denny Cherry
Data integrity,
Data Types,
NULL,
SQL,
T/SQLThere is always a discussion going on somewhere over having NULL values in a database. Some people (such as myself) are fine with NULL values. Some people don't like having NULL values in there database for some reason. I've heard all sorts of reasons; "The screw up performance", "They are...