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  • An obligatory link to normal forms: andrewrollins.com/2009/08/11/… Yes I think your schema needs to be normalized at all times (except when you explicitly denormalize it for performance, and you know full well what you're doing). Normalized schema saves you a lot of data consistency headaches. Commented May 31, 2012 at 18:31
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    As a meta-comment to the process at hand: I don't think this is MySQL-specific at all. These decisions should be made long before implementation in the physical model and rather during design on the conceptual and logical models. Commented May 31, 2012 at 18:48