Re: A Normalization Question

> > "Having several copies" (ie 'brown', 'brown', 'brown') is redundant.
>
> a tuple that contained ('brown', 'brown', 'brown')
> would be representing three independent, distinct facts,
> therefore it would not be redundant.

Although each cell of the tuple represents a different thing (ie fact), they are all named by the same thing (ie string 'brown'). The string 'brown' is redundant. Because RM is a limited data model, it is hard to see this fact. It is more obvious in XDb1/TDM. Received on Wed Jul 07 2004 - 05:32:12 CEST