Re: A Normalization Question

> Actually, if Neo's ideas were practical at the physical level and he never
> introduced his form of "normalization" to the logical user level as a form
> of data model ...

While physical things can probably be normalized at the hardware layer, I am not talking about normalizing thing at the hardware layer when I normalize symbols and strings represented at at the logical layer. Both TM and RM are logical models. Implementation of them attempt to keep users in the logical layer. Data entered in Sql Server or Oracle is at the logical layer, and that includes symbols and strings. Is it really so hard to conceive that strings and symbols can be normalized at the logical level? Why do people keep insisting that RM's implementations are allowing user to enter non-logical data? Please explain how to determine which layer user-entered data in a RM db belongs to? Received on Sun Jul 18 2004 - 01:19:00 CEST