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There were a number of comments about my recent article on the negative effects of too much database normalization so allow me to expand the topic a little more. The most consistent comment I saw was that while many of you agreed with me in principle that too much normalization can lead to poor performance, the country name example was a bad choice. As a former teacher, I tend to choose illustrative examples that are easy to understand and explain. As a blog writer, I also tend to forget the web is full of nitpickers that will argue with you unless presented with a concrete example from the real world.