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while duplication MAY indeed improve performance – undue duplication also MAY hit performance pretty badly

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NoSQL will usually call for another denormalisation on top of what we’ve described above for SQL-with-XML.

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If we’re speaking about millions transactions per day over just a few hundred of different SQL statements – compiling those statements a million times (instead of a few hundred times) will be a dramatic waste of resources.

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Once upon a time, I observed the largest C++ file in my career – it was a 30’000-line file(!) consisting merely of ODBC bindings (and that was just for 300 or so SQL statements)

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99% of reporting requests and 99.9% of analytics is purely historical

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Information within the audit table should be sufficient to validate/justify current state

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As the RDBMS keeps modifying its tables – the tables gradually degrade

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As we can see from the table above – choosing your RDBMS it is not as easy as it might seem.