Re: A Normalization Question

neo55592_at_hotmail.com (Neo) writes:

> ID Person Color Street
> 1 brown brown brown

> One only needs to look at the above tuple to see 'brown' is redundant.
> One can become blind to this obvious fact by seeing things through a
> limited data model.

No, once again: The problem is that you stick to the physical layer. Semantic is important in the logical layer and semantic is import for normalization. Words like "light" comes to mind. What to do with them? Here you should clearly see, that you are not refering to "things" but that you are stuck in the physical layer without thinking any momemt about the semantic.

The road you are going leads directly to hell.

Your argument leads to the only atomar information size in computer: one bit. Only single bits may be stored directly, everything else has to be references to the two only true atomar things (in computers). That's all simply brain dead.

-- 
Stefan.