Is normalizing a person's name going too far?

Question

You usually normalize a database to avoid data redundancy. It\'s easy to see in a table full of names that there is plenty of redundancy. If your goal is to create a catalog

Answer 1

Generally yes. Normalizing to that level would be going to far. Depending on the queries (such as phone books where searches by last name are common) it might be worthwhile. I expect that to be rare.