Part 1. Architecture
Edited by Louis Davidson
Database design and architecture are subjects that can be quite polarizing. You’re either super excited by them, or they tend to make you bored to tears and ready to hurl cartoon birds at cartoon pigs. At the SQL PASS conference last year, a keynote was given by Dr. David DeWitte, a Technical Fellow in Microsoft’s Data and Storage Platform Division. For a great number of people, it was amazing stuff that made us sad when he finished talking. For quite a few more, it was painfully uninteresting, because, quoting a person I overheard, “I’m not going to use this.” As a speaker, I’ve given a number of sessions on normalization that get an average speaker score for usefulness that was just above 3 out ...
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