Re: Base Normal Form

dawn wrote:
> Jan Hidders wrote:

>>It's really not a good idea to confuse the concept of
>>relation and function. 

And yet that seems to be the consequence of what you are proposing. I could be wrong but I interpreted your suggestion as that every relation with a candidate key is a function. Since every relation has at least one candidate key that means that every relation is a function according to you. And yet, at the same time, you say:

> A function is a specific type of relation where a
> relation might not be a function at all.

So you seem to be contradicting yourself.

• Jan Hidders