I have a table that has 18 million rows, and I found out today that I don't really need to know one of the foreign key columns depending on another column value.
My question is.
If I set that column to NULL instead of a foreign integer key that I really don't need, will this save space?
Is there any performance considerations if I set the foreign key to null on the row. Is it going to speed up the query or slow it down?