Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!nsc!amdahl!JUTS!rbw00 From: rbw00@ccc.amdahl.com ( 213 Richard Wilmot) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Relational Databases Message-ID: Date: 21 Jun 91 19:19:35 GMT References: <6822@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1991Jun07.063749.7904@chinet.chi.il.us> <599@clbull.frcl.bull.fr> Reply-To: rbw00@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com ( 213 Richard Wilmot) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 24 In article <599@clbull.frcl.bull.fr> antoine@cl.bull.fr (Antoine Haraoui) writes: [....] >After all even >the conventional so called 3rd generation designs can be normalised! ^^^ ^^ should be I certainly had good success in developing stable IMS database designs through normalization. Normalization is a part of database design practice (conceptual design phase), while data storage methods (IMS, DB2, Focus, GemStone, etc.) are implementation and maintenance considerations. Right on Antoine. >Antoine G. HARAOUI, Bull S.A. e-mail: Antoine.Haraoui@cl.bull.fr >Software Development Methodology tel : (33-1) 3080 7629 Bulltel->2377629 >Av. Jean-Jaures, PC F30D01, fax : (33-1) 3080 7078 Bullfax->2377078 >78340 Les Clayes sous Bois, France -- Dick Wilmot | I declaim that Amdahl might disclaim any of my claims. (408) 746-6108