Re: By The Dawn's Normal Light

> I've been working on
> 1-3NF, ignoring 4-6 until I have figured out what to do with these.

4-6 are irrelevant unless you have compound keys or temporal data.

> It appears to me that 1-3 can be removed completely from the mixture
in
> favor of BCNF without any loss to the discipline. Do you agree?

I think that's reasonable. 1NF makes an interesting discussion, but that's all. 2-3 are useful primarily to get to BCNF, 4 and 5 go hand-in-hand (go right to five if you have composite keys), and 6 is for temporal only. Sorry for the sloppy characterizations here; I think BCNF, 5NF, and 6NF are sufficient.

> And as for Bush, I was a Kerry delegate to the state of Iowa. It is
even
> more damaging to keep GWB in office than 1-3NF on the books the way
> they are now.

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