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From: larry@cs.widener.edu (Larry Sigmond)
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Subject: Re: Relational Databases
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Date: 10 Jun 91 01:35:01 GMT
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In article <1991Jun08.124337.29813@uvmark.uucp> jim@uvmark.uucp (Jim Todhunter) writes:
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>Just a minor correction to this posting.  A relational database does NOT
>need to be normalized.  In fact, some of the most interesting current
>research is the area of NFNF (non first normal form) relational models.
>This is a very active area of investigation because there are serious
>deficiencies in the first normal form model.  

I'd be interested to hear an example of a deficiency caused by First 
Normal Form or a reference to the research.

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