Re: Newbie question about db normalization theory: redundant keys OK?

Sorry Bob - celko.

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"Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote in message 
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> Tony Rogerson wrote:


>

>>> Why didn't you bother to print out a new schedule when you got back to

>>> campus?

>>

>>

>> Why? There should be no need; also - there would be considerable 

>> contention as people came back to campus on the first day of the new 

>> term.

>>

>>> spammed the campus with their classes for this term and any

>>> information from last term

>>

>>

>> I guess with the 2,000 students you would check there had been 2,000 read 

>> receipts for the email you sent.

>>

>> You also assume that students have email off campus and don't just go 

>> straight to class according to the schedule they got when signing up for 

>> the class.

>>

>> You are so seriously divorced from any form of real world thinking - did 

>> you get "shot in the buttock"?

>>

>>> As the DBA, it is my job to keep the database consistent; I am not

>>> responsible for lazy, confused students who cannot find their own

>>> classes in my consistent, normalized Database.  You want to see

>>> Student Health Services or read your email with the current data in

>>> it.

>>

>>

>> What if that had been a hospital system and a patient and their 

>> medication? You'd be given the wrong medication to the wrong patient 

>> which could kill them.

>>

>> Folk like you are a real problem in the IT industry, your ignorance to 

>> how the real world works and self importance rather than team importance 

>> causes delays and failures across the spectrum of IT projects.

>

> Tony, it would be helpful if you did not remove the attribution at the top 

> of your post. I have no idea who you responded to. Was it Joe? Or someone 

> else?