NYCPHP Meetup

[Rob Marscher]

On Jul 30, 2009, at 9:10 PM, Rob Marscher <rmarscher at beaffinitive.com>  
wrote:
> On Jul 30, 2009, at 6:33 PM, Allen Shaw <ashaw at polymerdb.org> wrote:
>> I'm thinking the multi-table joins performed twice for each search  
>> will make more of a hit in performance (and maintenance) than  
>> writing two rows for each relationship and then always being able  
>> to search only once.
>
> I've used code like that successfully for 4 years. I'm not sure if  
> that's even technically denormalization, but the savings in read  
> time definitely outweigh the extra writes and storage.

Just noticed that my snip didn't make it totally clear but I'm talking  
about two rows per friend relationship.

Cheers,
Rob