Re: Dawn doesn't like 1NF

From: Alfredo Novoa <alfredo_at_ncs.es>
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 11:20:17 GMT
Message-ID: <4163d4ef.5438328@news.wanadoo.es>

On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 16:37:56 GMT, "Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote:

>Time to refresh my memory. Remind me again what it is you
>don't like about 1NF. Is it simply that one can't have relations
>as attributes? (Or lists or whatever, although some SQL engines
>allow lists as attributes.)

You can have relations as tuple attribute values in 1NF.

>If you could have a column that had a relation type, or a list
>type, and these could have relation types or list types in turn,
>recursively, is that what you want?

What she wants is to manually transverse hierarchies using procedural code in the ancient Pick way.

Regards Received on Wed Oct 06 2004 - 06:20:17 CDT