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Normalisation

Data & Databases

Storing each fact in exactly one place.

Structuring tables so a customer email lives once and everything else points at it. Changing it is then one edit rather than a thousand. Deliberately duplicating for read speed is denormalisation, and you own keeping the copies in step.

See also Foreign key, Join