> You have mangled the concept of "normalization" to the point where any use
> of a foreign key for reference purposes is "redundant" to the primary key it
> relates to.
Within the context of a db, the use of underlying, data-independent
links/refs (ie ID 1429476) to the one and only original data within
the db is not considered redundant data because:
- they are independent of the data being modelled.
- they are or should be hidden/inaccessible/transparent to the user.
Received on Tue Jun 08 2004 - 16:05:28 CDT
