How to fake a database design
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What the hell is fifth normal form and why do we want it? Well, it deals with cases where we can avoid redundancy when information can be reconstructed from smaller bits of information and ... and ... and ... OK, so that's not helping. In fact, the vast majority of explanations on the Web aren't helping, so I'll explain how to fake database normalization. I'll even avoid big words. For those of you who know nothing about databases, this will help you tremendously. For those of you who know databases, try not to throw your coffee mug at the screen.
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