denormalize
verbEtymology From de- + normalize.
1
Computing, Databases, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To add redundancy to (a database schema), the opposite of normalization, typically in order to optimize its performance.
- Some developers regularly denormalize portions of the database in an attempt to improve performance.2011, Paul Nielsen, Uttam Parui, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Bible, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 516:
2
To make no longer normal; to treat or regard as different or unusual.
- One question these scenes pose for cultural theory is whether such depictions denaturalize rape and denormalize masculinist pleasure in viewing sexual violence.2018, Lee Quinby, Millennial Seduction: A Skeptic Confronts Apocalyptic Culture, page 139:
- Derived terms
- denormalization, denormalizer