Neo wrote:
>>The real problem here is that Neo has conflated the concepts of duplication
>>and redundancy.
>
>
> With respect to dbs, normalization is the process of eliminating or
> replacing duplicate things with a reference to the original thing
> being represented.
Not things, *facts*! Normalization is about preventing that a certain
fact is being represented in more than one way. That's why having
several copies of the string "Brown" is not redundancy.
Received on Thu Jul 01 2004 - 15:29:00 CDT
