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"Brian Selzer" <brian@selzer-software.com> wrote in message
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> If a tuple with a list is deleted, the contents of the list is also
deleted,
> possibly snuffing out the only instance of that list in the database.
This
> may not be a problem in most cases, but wasn't this same scenario one of
the
> arguments for further normalization?

Is this the same thing as what Dawn called the "ripple delete" in her blog?