Path: news.easynews.com!core-easynews!newsfeed3.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!news.glorb.com!hammer.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!ucdavis!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news.service.uci.edu!not-for-mail From: Larry Coon Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: A Normalization Question Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 14:28:37 -0700 Organization: University of California Lines: 13 Message-ID: <40EC6B05.2431@assist.org> References: <20040626120209.29625.00000578@mb-m16.aol.com> <4b45d3ad.0406300959.36b2b9d2@posting.google.com> <2kggoeF24agdU1@uni-berlin.de> <9sJEc.52984$aJ3.39919@nwrdny02.gnilink.net> <4b45d3ad.0407011117.3cdd577c@posting.google.com> <2kj7sqF2lcg5U1@uni-berlin.de> <4b45d3ad.0407060921.64806da6@posting.google.com> <2l07o3F78a0gU1@uni-berlin.de> <4b45d3ad.0407061739.57ff6b12@posting.google.com> Reply-To: lcnospam@assist.org NNTP-Posting-Host: larry.assist.uci.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) Xref: core-easynews comp.databases.theory:36673 X-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 14:29:14 MST (news.easynews.com) Neo wrote: > Because RM is a limited data model [. . .] I think your entire argument boils down to a strawman. You mischaracterize the application of the relational model, then use that mischaracterization to assert that the relational model is limited. Hard to be persuasive with such a fundamental fallacy in your logic. Larry Coon University of California