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Whatever happened to Boyce-Codd Normal Form, huh??
Huh?
Come on... TNF is for wimps.
Regards
HJR
;-)
"Paul Brewer" <paul_at_paul.brewers.org.uk> wrote in message
news:3ddc287e_3_at_mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com...
> "Alex Filonov" <afilonov_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:336da121.0211190825.5b10ca51_at_posting.google.com...
> > I duck under cover, of course. I expect hundreds of people (OK, not
> hundreds)
> > start shouting at me that practical means overweght theory, that no
> production
> > DB ever was 3rd form compiant etc. All true. And my experience tells me
> that
> > the closer to 3rd form you get, the simpler DB and application code you
> can
> > have.
> >
> Alex,
>
> No need to duck from me; I agree entirely.
> But I have no fixed objections to designers departing from TNF for
> performance, *provided they have got to TNF first*.
>
> Regards,
> Paul
>
>
>
Received on Wed Nov 20 2002 - 18:50:10 CST