Re: Database design
From: x <x_at_not-exists.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:47:00 +0200
Message-ID: <dtkecl$oe4$1_at_emma.aioe.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:47:00 +0200
Message-ID: <dtkecl$oe4$1_at_emma.aioe.org>
You say a relation is flat because the attributes of a single tuple are all at the same "level" like (a1,a2,...,an) in R(A1,A2,A3,...,An) instead of something like (((a1,a2), (a3,a4)), a5, (a6,a7,a8),....) so the tuples are flat, not the relations. Received on Thu Feb 23 2006 - 14:47:00 CET