Re: Nearest Common Ancestor Report (XDb1's $1000 Challenge)

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 02:21:00 GMT
Message-ID: <ZoNAc.52594$2i5.12932@attbi_s52>

"Neo" <neo55592_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:4b45d3ad.0406071913.48e8fc07_at_posting.google.com...

> Although brown appears three times in the script, XDb1 normalizes the
> second two by making them references to the first one. There is only
> one brown in XDb1's db. Using RM#1 or #2, brown is stored three
> separate times.

Would that mean that if John's name is brown, it would be stored in the same place as the color brown? And would that mean that if the UI designer wanted to change all browns to umber as part of a UI redesign, that it would change John's name?

Marshall Received on Fri Jun 18 2004 - 21:21:00 CDT