Is database normalization just for database geeks in ivory towers? Is it counter to performance? Or is it critical to make sure that your database application works and doesn't crash?
And what the heck is normalization really, anyway?
Career database geek Josh Berkus will show in terms directly relevant to application developers why normalization is important for performance, maintainability, accuracy, and avoiding downtime. He'll explain what normalization is (and what it isn't) and demonstrate some ways to measure it.
If you thought that normalization had nothing to do with you even though you use a relational database, this talk is for you.
JoshBerkusJosh Berkus is best known as a Core Team member of the world-spanning PostgreSQL database project. He contributes to a variety of other open source projects, events and campaigns, including government open data, OSCON, pgCon, BIRT, open source voting, Perl, and several application projects. Josh is president of PostgreSQL Experts, Inc., a database consulting company. In his "spare time" he cooks, reviews restaurants, and makes pottery.
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