The DB will work just fine regardless of how you organize your data, some queries might just not be possible or efficient. A well designed database will easily serve many different type of applications at the same time.
The power in databases lies in their ability to easily transform or restructure the same source data in multiple kinds of different ways. The catch is that it has to be arranged in a specific way (normalization) for this to happen. Normalization is actually based on math and set theory.
The power in databases lies in their ability to easily transform or restructure the same source data in multiple kinds of different ways. The catch is that it has to be arranged in a specific way (normalization) for this to happen. Normalization is actually based on math and set theory.