What is Denormalization?

Denormalization is the strategic process of introducing controlled redundancy into a normalized database to optimize query read performance.

Advantages	Disadvantages
Dramatically faster read queries	Slower write throughput (INSERT/UPDATE)
Eliminates expensive multi-table JOINs	Extra disk storage consumption
Simplifies reporting and analytics code	Risk of data inconsistency across copies

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