Practice - Denormalization
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Practice Questions
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What is denormalization?
💡 Hint: Think about its relationship to normalization.
Name one advantage of denormalization.
💡 Hint: What happens to the complexity of queries?
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Interactive Quizzes
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What is denormalization?
💡 Hint: Focus on ops about data retrieval.
True or False: Denormalization increases the number of joins needed for queries.
💡 Hint: Think about the outcome when you merge tables.
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Challenge Problems
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Design a simple schema containing Customers, Orders, and Products. Describe how you would denormalize this schema for a reporting tool and the impacts on both reads and writes.
💡 Hint: Think about the relationships between these entities and the best way to consolidate them.
In a project where you optimize a database for online shopping with numerous reads, explain your approach to decide between normalization and denormalization.
💡 Hint: Evaluate the project's needs in terms of data integrity versus performance.
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