[Koha] some thoughts about cataloguing and acquisition (important)

[Marco Gaiarin]

Mandi! Christopher Hicks
  In chel di` si favelave...

> database directly.  But in most practical systems some degree of
> denormalization is necessary for effeciency.

There's ever time for dirty tricks, and i'm seriously convinced that
with a well written schema in normal (normalized?!) form all things can
be done with no big penalties (or better, with low speed penalties
compared to overral stability benefit ;).


> production.  Financial environments and other places where there's plenty
> of money to throw at hardware for the database often run production
> systems with referential integrity cut on, but that's the opposite of most
> libraries I'm familiar with.

Oh, my organization use JDE OW as a business/ERP/CRM software, and there's
no referential integrity at all.

Worst practice tipically doesn't need examples. ;)

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