And a well-issued defense at that! I believe that you are referring to the credo of "Normalize until it hurts, denormalize until it stops". I have one client...

My point exactly. I never advocated the use of "magic values" but rather the use of a well-defined architecture. The judicious normalization of a data model, coupled with...

This is one of the best concise treatises on NULL I have seen. Your adminition about a well architected database design not allowing NULLs for any columns is as...