Re: A Normalization Question

From: Jan Hidders <jan.hidders_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be>
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 21:08:17 GMT
Message-ID: <59kFc.172682$eN6.8464521@phobos.telenet-ops.be>

x wrote:

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

>>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* ! :-)

Yes, but not all things are facts. :-)

• Jan Hidders

Received on Fri Jul 02 2004 - 16:08:17 CDT