This document discloses a software, data structure, method, apparatus and article of manufacture that allows database engines to implement tables that simultaneously exhibit the advantages of both normalization and de-normalization. Examples of such advantages include no data replication or minimum data replication, no table joins or a minimum number of joins, the ability to update data in one place and one place only, and query performance comparable to the same queries on heavily or fully de-normalized tables.
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