Re: Demo: John, Mary and R2D2

"Neo" <neo55592_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:4b45d3ad.0411191622.42251afb_at_posting.google.com...
> > 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?

Um, didn't I post that like, months ago? Have you been working on your reply all this time?

BTW, the usual meaning of "OT" as an abbreviation is "off-topic."

Marshall Received on Sat Nov 20 2004 - 04:05:18 CET