I was mostly referring to a relational database, but I do a lot of work with multidimensional databases (mostly SQL Server Analysis Services). You don't typical

I was mostly referring to a relational database, but I do a lot of work with multidimensional databases (mostly SQL Server Analysis Services). You don't typically do full text searching on a cube. In warehousing, you often get wide tables because they're optimized for the reads, not the writes, so are typically second normal form (2NF) rather than the third normal form (3NF) that most people are familiar with.