How do you determine how far to normalize a database?

Question

When creating a database structure, what are good guidelines to follow or good ways to determine how far a database should be normalized? Should you create an un-normalized

Answer 1

Just try to use common sense.

Also some say - and I have to agree with them - that, if you're finding yourself joining 6 (the magic number) tables together in most of your queries - not including reporting related ones- , than you might consider denormalizing a bit.