Re: Newbie question about db normalization theory: redundant keys OK?
From: Tony Rogerson <tonyrogerson_at_torver.net>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:40:10 -0000
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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:40:10 -0000
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> Agreed; this was a skeleton table to demonstrate to the OP that tables
> can have redundant or even overlapping keys to preserve data
Perhaps next time you won't be so dam condecending to the newbies posting problems when they post a 'skeleton table' to 'demonstrate' the problem.
> integrity. Tony just gets easily side tracked and I am afraid I tend
> to fall for it myself. Sorry for the thread drift ..
No thread drift - and you still haven't answered the questions; yet again instead of answering the actual question I posed you wonder off with insults or digress into completely unrelated woffle.
-- Tony Rogerson, SQL Server MVP http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/tonyrogerson [Ramblings from the field from a SQL consultant] http://sqlserverfaq.com [UK SQL User Community]Received on Fri Dec 14 2007 - 22:40:10 CET