[Data-modeling] Denormalised data

[Christopher R. Maden]

Philip Kendall wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 09:20:29AM -0400, Christopher R. Maden wrote:
>> 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.

With respect to Scott, he is hip-deep in the innards of the data, and
the Right Thing is clearly to fix the data model; however, the Web
client, MQL, and all the other ways for actually interacting with the
data do not deal well with proper normalization.  For that reason, I
strongly recommend (regretfully) redundant data entry for now.  If and
when userbots are encouraged, you could write something to ensure
consistency of the redundant data; and until then, you could submit a
ticket in Jira asking the data team to add something to its Kwality process.

~Chris
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