Re: What are the limits to the usefulness of normalization?

jraustin1_at_hotmail.com (James) wrote in message news:<a6e74506.0112312120.91bf3ad_at_posting.google.com>...
> > Oh dear, Dwaun!
> Translation: You are a close significant of mine.
>
> > I apologize for not following this newsgroup as much as I would like. I see
> > that all of the previous answers you received to your question were not only
> > incorrect but dangerously incorrect.
> Translation: I look damn good in the mirror and you are lucky to have
> my presense.
>
> > Sadly, vendors have (so far) failed to provide adequate independence between
> > the logical model and physical layout of the data, and few practitioners
> > know or can appreciate the distinction between the conceptual and logical
> > levels of discourse. Subsequently, both vendors and practitioners frequently
> > blame normalization for their own failings.
> Translation: I could do it better if I wanted to but it is easier to
> look down my nose and also you and others are dumb.
>
> > I would direct you to "C. J. Date, _Relational Database Writings 1991-1994_,
> > I would also direct you to Fabian Pascal's latest book _Practical Issues in
> Translation: Here are some books that I wrote for dummies like you
> because there is no way you understood what the heck I just explained
> to you.
>
> All kidding aside, Bob's tirade was surgically correct with respect to
> rdbs. See www.xdb1.com/Normalization.asp for equivalent from an oodb's
> point-of-view.

Translation: I am incapable of posting to this forum without flacking my product. Received on Wed Jan 02 2002 - 14:57:05 CET