Re: A Normalization Question

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"Jan Hidders" <jan.hidders_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be> wrote in message news:gu_Ec.171583$073.8609844_at_phobos.telenet-ops.be...

> > With respect to dbs, normalization is the process of eliminating or
> > replacing duplicate things with a reference to the original thing
> > being represented.

All *things* in a database are references. :-)

> 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.

But *facts* are *things* ! :-)

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