Re: 1 NF
Date: 1 Mar 2007 05:30:00 -0800
Message-ID: <1172755800.489376.252980_at_30g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>
>> the relation that contains the combinations of parts ever shipped in one or more shipments, a set of sets if you will. <<
>> If it is a single attribute relation, then it may be hard to display without some device such as a "generated key". <<
You would usually have a shipment number that might be derived from
source, destination, etc.
>> If certain relations we can imagine are not possible in Codd's RM without an arbitrary number of attributes then I'd think that his theory is broken. <<
The theory is still good; modeling is hard.
And not everything fits into RM. Documents and text searching require
semantics and return a fuzzy revelance match number. Pictures are
even worse. A human can look at a political cartoon, a symbol
(Doonsberry's floating war helment) and a photogrpah and know that
they are all George Buch. There is no way to write a join for that
kind of matching. Fractals curves also have problems, since there is
an infinite distance between any two points and you cannot determine
if a point is inaide or outside of a closed fractal curve.
Received on Thu Mar 01 2007 - 14:30:00 CET