[Data-modeling] Denormalised data

[Philip Kendall]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:20:29AM -0400, Christopher R. Maden wrote:
> Philip Kendall wrote:
> > However, this leads to a question as to what is "best practice" when
> > filling in the /cvg/game_version for the original version of the game:
> > should they be filled in with the same values as were put in
> > /cvg/computer_videogame (thus meaning that the two could get out of
> > sync) or should they be left empty (thus meaning that any apps have to
> > know about this structure)?
> 
> I would go with the redundant data entry.

On the other hand...

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:10:03AM -0700, Scott Meyer wrote:
> Yeah, fix the data model.

I'm currently assuming that (due to inertia, if nothing else), the data
model here isn't likely to be changing in the short-to-medium term, so
I'll go with redundant data entry for now. If anybody feels it is likely
to change, please speak up as I'm starting to think about a
non-trivially sized data upload...

Cheers,

Phil

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