Re: Demo: John, Mary and R2D2

> From OT "A Normalization Question", Marshall wrote: I consider it telling
> that all the examples you come up with are nonsensical. WTF does
> "John obeys army" mean? How come your missing-data examples involve people
> with two different color eyes? "'brown' is a string" is a proposition?

Sensical examples are for limited data models.

> Have you ever had a job that involved data management?

:)

> Clearly not, which is why you don't have any examples that make any sense;
> you have no experience with the actual domain under discussion.

Could you tell me which of the examples listed at www.xdb2.com/example/default.asp don't make any sense to you?

> Even the question of whether pizza toppings are ordered or not
> makes more sense than the stuff you come up with.

Here is a pizza example (www.xdb2.com/Example/Ex108.asp).

> Instead of making up new meanings for existing well-defined terms,
> howsabout you come up with a way to solve problems
> *people actually have* that's better than what they have now?

Try the one in the thread titled "Demo: Db for Dummies" or the one posted at the start of this thread. Wouldn't you say it is better than using strings? Received on Fri Nov 19 2004 - 18:22:08 CST