Re: A Normalization Question

From: VHarris001 <vharris001_at_aol.com>
Date: 09 Jul 2004 12:14:55 GMT
Message-ID: <20040709081455.29796.00001156_at_mb-m18.aol.com>


>
>Neo,
>
>Since you supplant all instances of a specific encoding with references to a
>single character value, wouldn't the references, which are pieces of
>information themselves, be redundant?
>

[snip]

>Regards,
>
>Dan
>

Normalizing the data this finely might be necessary in some cases. Wouldn't a database program that allowed, without requiring, this degree of normalization, be useful?

It seems that if neo's database REQUIRES normalization to the nth degree, but if it allows it, it seems that would be a useful feature. No?

V Harris Received on Fri Jul 09 2004 - 14:14:55 CEST

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