Re: Who first (publicly) asserted 3NF is "good enough"?
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:38:20 +0100
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"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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>> It's probably far too late to get a confident answer now, but does anyone
>> know if there was a single authoritative writer (long ago) who expressed
>> this foolish idea?
>
> It's not so much that 3nf is good enough as it is that almost all 3nf
> designs are also in 5nf.
Indeed. That is almost verbatim what I tell people too.
I wanted to know if there was some specific culprit I could name and shame.
I am happy enough to laboriously work through the whys and wherefores if
challenged, but in in the interests of brevity in a presentation I'm doing
on Wednesday I want to just slander someone and move on.
Roy
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