Re: A Normalization Question

"VHarris001" <vharris001_at_aol.com> wrote in message news:20040709081455.29796.00001156_at_mb-m18.aol.com...
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> >Neo,
> >
> >Since you supplant all instances of a specific encoding with references
to a
> >single character value, wouldn't the references, which are pieces of
> >information themselves, be redundant?
> >
>
> [snip]
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> >Regards,
> >
> >Dan
> >
>
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> Normalizing the data this finely might be necessary in some cases.

What "data" are you normalizing? As a logical application data model, I could see this serve as the definition for alphabets and languages which would correspond to functional dependencies, but these are modeled quite nicely already in other forms and methods. Do you other applications where this would be useful in mind? An example, perhaps?

Wouldn't a
> database program that allowed, without requiring, this degree of
normalization,
> be useful?

The relational model does allow for this, without reference to pointers, and it is real normalization for the right reasons, using the correct theoretical basis.

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> It seems that if neo's database REQUIRES normalization to the nth degree,
but
> if it allows it, it seems that would be a useful feature. No?

What is normalization to the nth degree? We have some criterion of completeness with the normalization associated with database design.

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> V Harris
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• Dan