Re: Proposal: 6NF

From: David Cressey <dcressey_at_verizon.net>
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:24:04 GMT
Message-ID: <o1rVg.851$Ye.584@trndny04>

"Roy Hann" <specially_at_processed.almost.meat> wrote in message news:JbqdnVhWQvBlk7jYRVnygg_at_pipex.net...

> Usually this kind of idiocy appears when using crappy tools that simply
> assume you're OK about outer joins and their consequent spray of nulls,
> instead of solving the problem properly. Report generators are a
particular
> object of my loathing in this respect.

Either that or people want to read crappy reports. How much or how little you loathe the way ordinary people approach the data is as much a matter of culture as it is of logic. Received on Fri Oct 06 2006 - 06:24:04 CDT