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Managing Computed Attributes

Explore how computed attributes derived from existing data can impact database integrity and size. Understand why storing such derived fields is discouraged, and learn to use SQL ALTER TABLE to remove redundant columns. Gain skills to compute values on the fly with queries, ensuring accurate and efficient database management.

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 ...