Database normalization - who's right?
问题 My professor(who claimed to have a firm understanding about systems development for many years) and I are arguing about the design of our database. As an example: My professor insists this design is right: (list of columns) Subject_ID Description Units_Lec Units_Lab Total_Units etc... Notice the total units column. He said that this column must be included. I tried to explain that it is unnecessary, because if you want it, then just make a query by simply adding the two. I showed him an