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From: mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Do you normalize?
Keywords: normalization
Message-ID: <8298@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 20 Jul 89 00:10:16 GMT
References: <242@6sigma.UUCP> <1581@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, IN, USA
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In article <1581@cod.NOSC.MIL>, dberg@cod.NOSC.MIL (David I. Berg) writes:
> 
> > Do you normalize your databases? 
> 
... 
> I usually normalize to 3NF, I do it by hand, and I use INFORMIX.

I will clain to normalise to 3NF all the time as well, but sometimes it is not
worth the trouble.  Especially when having to use dBase.  If I am using
Oracle or some other SQL product that will do joins for me, 3NF is not a
problem.

I, too, do it by hand, but I do not claim to perform this normalization to
perfection.  (At least I don't have tables that have 128 fields in them.)

-Michael

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