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Re: Database Normalization-Outdated?

From: Charlie Mengler <charliem_at_mwh.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:26:42 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004544C6.20020430142642@fatcity.com>


If this concept is so simple (simplistic?), why does it take a whole book to elaborate on it?

"Lisa R. Clary" wrote:
>

[...snip...]
> Recently, a consultant who has published a book about
> SQL is now telling me that there is a better model--that of value pair
> combinations (e.g. variable, value) to which all of the data can be modeled
> without the creation of any extra tables. So instead of the 600 tables now
> (normalized & with RI) should be broken down into 2 tables--one to hold the
> meta data (e.g. variable name and possible values) mapped back to say a
> customer table that has a (variable,value,event code,comment) combination
> describing everything about that customer.

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