Re: 1 NF

On 2007-02-28, Cimode wrote:

> The answer is NOT A CHANCE as BLOBS break the primary requirement of
> independence between logical and physical layer and the fact that a
> BLOB attribute included in any proposition can not make a relation out
> of it (1NF dictates that all information MUST be stored as relations)

...and it is. A blob is simply a member of the set of strings of integers in the range [0,255]. If you can have attribute values drawn from strings over a finite (enumerated) set of characters, surely you can have attribute values drawn from strings over a finite set of plain integers.

So, please elaborate.

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