Re: A Normalization Question

From: Neo <neo55592_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 6 Jul 2004 20:13:46 -0700
Message-ID: <4b45d3ad.0407061913.65713367@posting.google.com>

> You have to show that in the tuple ("brown", "brown", "brown") the
> string "brown" each time represents the same fact.

The first, second and third string "brown" represent the same fact. Each string "brown" is composed of the symbols "b", "r", "o", "w", "n" in successive order. If you give me an accurate definition of fact and I will show that the string "brown" is/can be a fact.

> > It requires a limited data model to ignore this fact.
>
> It's true in any data model we know.

May be true in models that "we" knows, but "we" don't know all data models (or at least that of XDb1/TDM). Received on Tue Jul 06 2004 - 22:13:46 CDT