Re: Can we solve this -- NFNF and non-1NF at Loggerheads

From: strider5 <strider5_at_szm.com>
Date: 8 Feb 2005 00:30:56 -0800
Message-ID: <1107851456.257088.7580_at_c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>


>value of any attribute in a tuple must be a single value from
>the domain of that attribute

That is IMHO the key point - nothing stops you to define a domain which values are e.g. arrays of chars
(widely recognised as varchar).
Then varchar from one point of view is indivisible, OTOH everybody in this NG knows what SUBSTRING is... Received on Tue Feb 08 2005 - 09:30:56 CET

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