The horse race

If one were to bet on the horses, a database could be used to store such information, quantitative, even vague and cryptic observations of use only to the diarist, if you will.

Perhaps one could turn to the RM. One might list the horses by stable. One might list the horse, per race, and gate. The gate becomes merely an attribute for that relation.

But how far does one carry that? Horses are money-winners. Some win more, some less. And they can be ranked. Their ranking is yet another attribute, in another relation. At what point can one say that the relation is sorted, which is a violation of the RM, as I understand it? Received on Mon Feb 20 2006 - 19:37:04 CST