> > However, regardless of whether the string 'brown' is categorized as a
> > fact or not by your definition, they still represent the same thing,
> > the string 'brown'. Having three things that represent the same thing
> > in one db is redundant.
>
> It's physically redundant, not logically redundant.
As some have repeated here, RM is a logical model. In general, its
implementations doesn't expose the physical layer. The three 'brown'
strings stored in a relational database are logically redundant and
are subject to update anomalies.
Received on Mon Jul 12 2004 - 18:20:34 CDT
