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That's not what normalization is. You're thinking of deduplication or compression. This table is normalized as per usual database terminology.

• ghayes 5y ago
  But if it’s guaranteed to be 1:1, why? The two implementations (normalized and denormalized) in that case should be completely isomorphic, quirks of the DB engine aside.
  • remram 5y ago
    Why what? I don't understand what you are asking.