Re: Normalisation review

From: Roy Hann <specially_at_processed.almost.meat>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:57:50 +0100
Message-ID: <NsednSxECdi3LsbeRVnygg@pipex.net>

"JOG" <jog_at_cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote in message news:1129923691.031250.148580_at_g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> My count is 2 former students now not on their degree because, yes,
> plaguarising other people's answers in a coursework is cheating.

Absolutely. But his homework question was *show how* the above is a non-loss decomposition. *His* question to us was "what is non-loss decomposition?"

I have no idea how he slept through that in class, but unless all you trigger-happy college professors out there assign trivial homework questions like "define such-and-such" then it was a fair question that ought to have got at least a page reference in a text book as an answer.

He's lazy, not a cheat. You've all come quite close to defaming him, which is pretty disgraceful too.

And to the OP, look in the index of your text book, or Date's Introduction to Database Systems.

Roy Received on Sun Oct 23 2005 - 10:57:50 CDT