Re: dependency function, horn function, BCNF normal form

From: Alan <alanshein_at_erols.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:06:40 -0500
Message-ID: <a39921$16jt37$1_at_ID-114862.news.dfncis.de>


See my paper, "A Methodology for the Obfuscation of Normal Form Decompositional Algorithms in Functional Dependency Theory", which I will deliver at ICEP-02 (Intergalactic Conference for Egomaniacal Ph.D.s).

"Jan Hidders" <hidders_at_uia.ua.ac.be> wrote in message news:3c5821e3$1_at_news.uia.ac.be...
> "Michelle Stone" <mich_stone_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:a37vun$15t0g5$1_at_ID-50201.news.dfncis.de...
> > i was studying the theory of decomposing a relation into many smaller
ones
> > using BCNF normal form.
> >
> > i was following the algorithm provided at
> > http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~kannan/science/BCNF.pdf
>
> Oh dear, that's one of the most obfuscated ways to describe normalization
> that I've ever seen. :-)
>
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