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Managing Computed Attributes

Explore the challenges of storing computed attributes in databases and learn to use SQL ALTER TABLE to remove redundant columns. Understand how to calculate derived fields like sales amount dynamically in queries to ensure data accuracy and integrity while simplifying database structures.

Challenges of storing derived fields

Derived fieldsDerived fields are attributes whose values are calculated from other fields in the database using some formula., such as SalesAmount, are generally not stored in the database because they can ...