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Re: By The Dawn's Normal Light

From: Alfredo Novoa <anovoa_at_ncs.es>
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 04:28:39 +0200
Message-ID: <jq4mn0dcij9jpbclrgijbg0uio384coh5k@4ax.com> 





On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 07:37:25 -0400, "Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net>
wrote:



>I'm not a mathematician, but it's crystal clear to me that not all relations

>are in first normal form

>(called "normal form" in the 1970 paper).




But normal form was ill defined in the 1970 paper.



The 1970 paper is outdated, although it has an inmense merit on its
age.



Regards
Received on Sat Oct 23 2004 - 21:28:39 CDT












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