Re: A Normalization Question
Date: 13 Jul 2004 11:57:13 -0700
Message-ID: <4b45d3ad.0407131057.23d282f6_at_posting.google.com>
Suppose we have:
T_Person
ID Name Age
1 john 30
T_SoccerMember
ID Name Age
3 john 30
T_ChurchMember
ID Name Age
5 john 30
Following the first fold...
> 1. It is a process of eliminating redundant data. Not of "replacing
> things with references," but of _eliminating redundant data_.
...one might get:
T_Persons
ID Name Age
1 john 30
T_SoccerMember
ID Name Age
(Redundant john elmininated)
T_ChurchMembers
ID Name Age
(Redundant john elmininated)
while following mine...
> > replacing duplicate (redundant) things with a reference to the
> > original thing being represented.
...one gets:
T_Persons
ID Name Age
1 john 30
T_SoccerMember
ID PersonID
3 ->1 (redundant thing replaced with ref to original)
T_ChurchMembers
ID PersonID
3 ->1 (redundant thing replaced with ref to original)
Received on Tue Jul 13 2004 - 20:57:13 CEST