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_at_attbi_s04>
> 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.
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 02:39:13 GMT
Message-ID: <f5n9d.431931$8_6.397574_at_attbi_s04>
"Dan" <guntermann_at_verizon.com> wrote in message news:1Qd9d.12265$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 Fri Oct 08 2004 - 04:39:13 CEST