Re: Normalization and DBMS

Em Wed, 12 May 2004 08:50:43 +0000, Alfredo Novoa escreveu:

>> 1NF was initially applied to clean our databases of such
>>horrors as:
>>
>> CREATE TABLE
>>(
>> subject,
>> year,
>> grade_jan,
>> grade_feb,
>> ...
>>)
>
> Yes, but this table is in 1NF.

        So back to the textbooks...

        Normalisation apart would you still agree it is a good thing to get rid of repeating groups? On which theoretical basis if any?

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