Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!tethys.csu.net!nntp.csufresno.edu!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-09!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Gene Wirchenko Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Subject: Re: Relation or attribute and why Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 09:10:18 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <5sc672hhhicbdp39oc88brsgutc014grih@4ax.com> Reply-To: Gene Wirchenko References: <1147826073.046909.174590@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com> <1147990242.573989.100810@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1148340654.857359.81570@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> <1148380904.264427.209030@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 16 Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.theory:39966 On 23 May 2006 03:41:44 -0700, "Tony Andrews" wrote: [snip] >Occam's razor? There is no gain (that I can think of) in separating a >person's name into a separate table Name that has a 1:1 relationship >with the table Person, while there is a cost in terms of complexity. A person's name? Which one? I have two: Eugene Michael Wirchenko and Chen Jin Bai. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko