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

"paul c" <toledobythesea_at_oohay.moc> wrote in message news:YYgOd.334094$8l.51433_at_pd7tw1no...

> my personal cut, having once listened to Codd explain databases in terms
> of Christie Brinkley's 'phone number, is that incisive minds like his
> have little patience for revisionists. nobody can prove it now but i'd
> bet that his original point about 'atomic' values was merely a kind of
> place-holder while he was on his way to making his other points. he was
> trying to cover a lot of ground against tremendous resistance such as
> the powerful IMS marketeers in his own company.

That seems clear to me, just reading the original 1970 paper. Received on Wed Feb 09 2005 - 14:11:55 CET