Re: A Normalization Question

From: Larry Coon <lcnospam_at_assist.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 11:08:29 -0700
Message-ID: <40FC0E1D.690@assist.org>

Neo wrote:

> A data model that decides which type of redundancy is good or not is a
> limited model.

But you said that "brown" in three places is redundant (even if they represent separate and distinct facts), but using redundant references to a single location storing "brown" is not redundant becuase the redundant references are metadata, which is okay. Therfore, your own model decides which types of redundancy are good and which are not.

Larry Coon
University of California Received on Mon Jul 19 2004 - 13:08:29 CDT