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Posted by Jeff Kish on 10/02/52 11:48
On 19 May 2006 15:58:35 -0700, "--CELKO--" <jcelko212@earthlink.net>
wrote:
>Please read any book on RDBMS and learn what First Normal Form is
>(1NF). You think that SQL is a MV database or perhaps an old COBOL file
>with variant records. That is fundamentally wrong. Do you understand
>what a scalar value is? How about an atomic value (slight difference)?
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>Normalize the schema, which is the real problem, and your question is
>answered immediately by the data.
Excellent advise, however not realistic if the data model is not under
the posters control, right?
Yeah, not very normalized.. indeed!
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