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Re: Database design, Keys and some other things

From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 21:43:30 +0200
Message-ID: <433ee63d$0$11071$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>


paul c wrote:
> mAsterdam wrote:
>

>> ... When designing a database, we assume a closed world for
>> the database under design. Aren't you sugessting we
>> work within that same specific closed world when
>> designing it?

>
>
> Yes.
>
> Also that this makes the notion of "surrogate" meaningless within the CWA.

Well, when you are designing that big a database, you are right of course. For all other databases not, though. Received on Sat Oct 01 2005 - 14:43:30 CDT

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