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From: neo55592@hotmail.com (Neo)
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Subject: Re: A Normalization Question
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> No matter how many times his errors are
> pointed out and explained, he will NOT get it, because he KNOWS he is
> the only person who really understands and that we are all wrong, so
> he will not listen.

I only contend that 'brown' stored three time via the logical layer of
a relational db is logically redundant, subject to update anomaly and
can be normalized. No one's has yet proved otherwise to me.