Re: Base Normal Form

In message <1121162228.113616.139680_at_g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, dawn <dawnwolthuis_at_gmail.com> writes
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 >> Same here. (Holistic this side of the pond)
>
>Terrific! I'm forever reading statements about how we must be sure to
>model the data separate from how they will be used.
>
>--dawn
>

You are all programmers at heart, you are tricked by your need to process data into believing that it is yours. What you are writing today may be the only application now, but there _will_ be another, and another... If you don't consider the data in its own right, you are guaranteeing high cost (or even impossibility) for all future applications that will want to use this data.

To put it another way, data is the corporate asset, corporate survival means being able to use assets in new ways when required.

How much expensive ETL would we now need if data design had always been given a high priority?

-- 
Eric Junkermann