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Lemming wrote:
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> 1NF does indeed remove ordering information, unless you put it back
> (if it's important) within the data itself.
Actually, normalization never loses information that wasn't there in the first place. Of course, if you "normalize" a list by simply assuming that it is a set, you will lose information, but that is not how you should normalize such a data structure.
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