what is this normalizing of one's data? never heard about it.
it seems that using sql as the backend means a radical departure from
regular python programming practice? i suppose that's what's
confusing
me so much.
:-)
Database normalisation is a set of techniques for laying out
databases. Read the wikipedia article for an explanation of why.
As it applies to your goals, basically lists in DBs are bad because
they don't really fit with SQL's model of storage and organisation.
When you lay out your data in separate tables you get more efficient
storage, though you sometimes sacrifice performance. You have to use
join statements to glue it all back together again.
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