Re: Views for denomalizing

From: David Cressey <david.cressey_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 13:27:26 GMT
Message-ID: <2LKMd.65$oO.8@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>

"Alan" <not.me_at_rcn.com> wrote in message news:36gbd9F5132chU1_at_individual.net...

> Normalization occurs at a logical level (note I did not say "the" logical
> level, as I am just distinguishing logical from physical, not getting into
> logical vs conceptual- IOW, let's say logical and conceptual are the same
> thing, and are different from physical, just for this discussion.).

Let's not. let's say that the conceptual level and the logical level are different, and that normalization
is generally NOT done at the conceptual level. Why not? Because it will be done later at the logical level, and it contributes nothing to the communication between people that the conceptual level facilitates. Received on Fri Feb 04 2005 - 07:27:26 CST