RE: Anyone have a well normalized DB2 database and use RPG?

True. Just need to move on and fix the technical debt :-)

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From: Tim Bronski [mailto:tim.bronski@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 9:01 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Anyone have a well normalized DB2 database and use RPG?

On 10/25/2013 3:52 PM, Matt Olson wrote:

I'm talking about normalization where normalization makes sense.

But the point is what makes sense now didn't make sense then. Things weren't optimized the same way that we'd do it now because there were different constraints then: performance, DASD etc. It would be wrong to think that we're just smarter programmers today.

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