Jared - Sounds fine. Do you feel you received the information you needed?
Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 1:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Oh, I have *tons* of data modeling books/articles. Just needed a quick refresher for the purpose of offering explanations. Jared DENNIS WILLIAMS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/03/2003 11:14 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: Database Normalization Jared - The book that has helped me the most is "The Data Modeling Handbook" by Reingruber and Gregory. Their approach is to develop a best practice for each modeling situation. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 12:34 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L List, Doing some reading on Normalization today. We actually have the opportunity to create a database and app, and it's been so long since I've done this on a real project, a refresher was in order. I have the annoying habit of knowing what to do with normalization, based on past education and experience, but having difficulty explaining it to others. This is the kind of thing that makes Cary Millsap nuts. ( read the book if you don't know why ) Mladen would no doubt find this very simple. Anyway, in the course of finding some recent web pages on this, one of the better was at a SQL server magazine site: http://www.sqlmag.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=4887&pg=1 The reason for writing however, was to show you the worst one so far: www.tinyurl/th7i Basically, 'normalize unless it's inconvenient'. Jared -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).