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From: jbrown@herron.uucp (Jordan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: RDBMS sux, array/vector datatypes
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Date: 11 Nov 89 23:44:24 GMT
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Relations with arrays (or other composite data types) are not normalized,
by my reading of Date's "Introduction to Database Systems, vol I" (pg 243).

	"At every row and column position within the table, there always
	exists precisely one value, never a set of values."
-- 
Jordan Brown
jbrown@jato.jpl.nasa.gov