Gopal Rathore (6/30/2010)
Is this will be a good database design because it will make joins faster but again I will have to compromise with finding formulaId in Detail table as it will require another join to Master table of DocNum to find the corresponding formulaId?
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To make joins work faster proposed design is adding I/O overhead - it defeats the purpose, isn't it?
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Pablo (Paul) Berzukov
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