Re: A Normalization Question
From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:11:45 GMT
Message-ID: <BHeJc.79811$IQ4.26859_at_attbi_s02>
> I have no problem with recognizing that there are multiple occurrences of
> the same data element in that data structure. If that is how you
> define then then, sure, there is by definition redundancy here. But
> normalization is not concerned with removing that type of redundancy and
> there are good reasons why this is so.
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:11:45 GMT
Message-ID: <BHeJc.79811$IQ4.26859_at_attbi_s02>
"Jan Hidders" <jan.hidders_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be> wrote in message news:pan.2004.07.13.18.55.48.643125_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be...
>
> I have no problem with recognizing that there are multiple occurrences of
> the same data element in that data structure. If that is how you
> define then then, sure, there is by definition redundancy here. But
> normalization is not concerned with removing that type of redundancy and
> there are good reasons why this is so.
That is what I meant earlier when I said that eliminating redundancy and normalization were not the same thing.
Marshall Received on Wed Jul 14 2004 - 20:11:45 CEST