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Re: Dawn doesn't like 1NF

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 02:39:13 GMT
Message-ID: <f5n9d.431931$8_6.397574@attbi_s04> 





"Dan" <guntermann_at_verizon.com> wrote in message news:1Qd9d.12265$na.4447_at_trnddc04...

>




> This is the core issue in my mind.  1NF is critical, not because it is the

> right way to organize data necessarily, but because it is an essential

> criterion for specifying domain values, as data, or as part of expressions

> in logic.




Can you provide an example of a difficulty that would arise if
we relaxed 1NF?




Marshall
Received on Thu Oct 07 2004 - 21:39:13 CDT












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