Re: How to normalize this?
Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 16:17:59 -0400
Message-Id: <20130501161759.41306eb7.jklowden_at_speakeasy.net>
On Wed, 1 May 2013 11:20:47 +0200
Jan Hidders <hidders_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2013-04-30 22:17:44 +0000, Erwin said:
>
> > It's often bothered me that normalization theory/procedure seems to
> > quietly ignore the notion of "nullability or not" of any of the
> > attributes in the "initial table design" ...
>
> Nullability doesn't really matter for normalization. From a
> redundancy point of view null is just another value.
I guess I don't know what a "redundancy point of view is", but
one's point of view.
--jkl Received on Wed May 01 2013 - 22:17:59 CEST