Architect's Journey

Apr 24, 2024 · Databases

A Graceful Approach to Multi‑Table Queries: Embrace Aggregation, Avoid Stitching

The article compares redundant and normalized storage, explains their trade‑offs, and introduces an in‑memory aggregation technique implemented via a repository "fill" method in Java, showing how to replace costly SQL joins with flexible, code‑driven data merging while preserving consistency and performance.