Re: Must we also create separate tables?

On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:27:15 -0700 (PDT), Srubys_at_gmail.com wrote:

>Greetings
>
>I apologize for not replying sooner, but for some reason my post
>didn’t appear for quite some time, so I assumed…
>
>
>Anyways, if I understood your replies correctly, then not only is
>
>STUDENT ( STUDENT#, STUDENT_NAME, SUBJECT, SUBJECT_NAME, TEACHER )
>
> also in 1NF, but perhaps it is even more advisable ( at least until I
>get more experienced at it ) to do it this way and not to create
>separate tables for each group of related data when putting the table
>in 1NF ( since separate tables for repeating groups of data will still
>get created when I got through 2NF and 3NF )?

Hi Srubys,

Yes, that is exactly the advice I was trying to give you.

Best, Hugo Received on Wed Oct 29 2008 - 22:07:58 CET