Re: Normalization Question

From: Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra <leandro_at_dutra.fastmail.fm>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 03:16:19 -0200
Message-ID: <pan.2005.01.22.05.15.03.971693@dutra.fastmail.fm>

Em Fri, 21 Jan 2005 10:27:57 -0600, Dawn M. Wolthuis escreveu:

> It is such a shame that you have to guess at future cardinality
> right up front when designing a relational structure, eh? Wouldn't
> it be great if we could design at a level where a change in
> multiplicity, like a change in size, type, or constraints, could be
> handled without a changing the logical model of the data?

Then it ain't a logical model, but only a draft.

Dawn, have you to troll your ignorance around?

If we wouldn't finish the draft into a model, we'd have to program around it instead of benefitting from the relational data independence declarativeness.

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