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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> comp.databases.theory -> Re: A Normalization Question
Neo wrote:
> That is correct, everything in a db is a fact. The string 'brown' is a
> fact.
Bzzt...no. The string "brown" is a string. The proposition, "The person's name is 'Brown'" (assuming it's true) is a fact. The proposition, "The color of the car is 'brown' is a fact. Strings are no more facts in database systems than adjectives are facts in natural language.
Larry Coon
University of California
Received on Tue Jul 13 2004 - 12:55:59 CDT
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