Re: A Normalization Question

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"Neo" <neo55592_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:4b45d3ad.0407281002.65a65735_at_posting.google.com...

> > Yes. The user ask the DBMS to spell 'brown'.
> > For asking this, the user need to know how to spell 'brown' :-)
> > This is why an empty db suffices :-)

> It is like asking how to get $1000 from an empty bank account and
> someone suggesting by having a user deposit $1000 into it. The problem
> here is one of scope. Both the $1000 outside the bank and the string
> 'brown' supplied by a user outside the db are out of the original
> scope. If the scope is the universe, then the derivations provided
> have been correct.

One can get $1000 without involving a bank account regardless if it is empty or not.

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