Posted by Greg D. Moore \(Strider\) on 03/30/07 13:24

"--CELKO--" <jcelko212@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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>>> I can't quite get my mind wrapped around this one. <<
>
>>From your example, the three answers seem to be drawn from different
> domains:
>
> customer_status, department, response
>
> Therefore, you should have seperate columns for them from the start
> and get rid of this non-table completely. This thing never made it to
> 1NF. YOu also semto assume that a table has an ordering, so that
> talking about first, second and third anssers makes sense -- it doe
> snot.
>
I'm confused Joe... what's deer mucus got to do with this table.

I mean I know it's messy and all ;-).



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