Re: A Normalization Question

> > It is you who are confusing logical with physical as you have
> > difficulty understanding that strings and symbols can and are be
> > represented at the logical layer in my examples and discussions.
>
> You mean me and countless others here. You are wrong.

Yes, I mean you and countless others here are wrong.

> Give up, as you are approaching troll status with this nonsense.

Give up, as you are providing contradictory agruments which are nonsense.

> > Above you indicate user enters data at the logical level, but now you
> > seem to be saying user enter symbols and string (which is data) at the
> > physical level. You are contradicting yourself.
>
> The data is entered at the logical level.

That is correct. Because symbols and strings are also data, they are entered at the logical level. It is possible to enter redundant logical data whether it be a person, a string, or a symbol. That the string 'brown' can be logically normalized and yet name many things is shown at www.xdb2.com/Example/ThingsNamedBrown.asp

> You need to think in reality.

You need to expand your limited perception of reality.

> Look, _anything_ can be compared at "_some_ level of abstraction".
> I prefer to exist in the real world.

Above two statements are contradictory. You exist in the real world yet you also compare different things at some level of abstraction. Received on Wed Jul 21 2004 - 02:33:22 CEST