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by hilariously 65 days ago
It depends on if you are doing OLTP (granular, transactional) vs OLAP (fact/date based aggregates) - dates are generally not something you'd consider in a fully normalized flow to uniqify records.
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estetlinus 65 days ago
Makes sense. I’m an OLAP guy.
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hilariously 64 days ago
Well you are in luck, if someone tells your to normalize you can tell them their source system can fuck right off.
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