Mick Krippendorf <mad.m...@gmx.de> writes: > Paul Rubin schrieb: > > Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> writes: > >> If I knew what First Anormal Form was I (hope!) > > > > It appears to be a made-up term. > > I read it somewhere once, I just can't find or even remember the > source. I definitely didn't make it up, though I wish I had.
The word “anormal” appears to have been made up by you. The negation of the word “normal” is “abnormal”, perhaps you meant “First Abnormal Form”? That term was in use when E. F. Codd was originally describing the normal forms, and seemed to imply a database that was in even worse shape than 0NF. More recently, this witty commenter at Daily WTF has defined a plausible (though certainly not universally-agreed) set of abnormal forms <URL:http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/Roll_Your_Own_Clustered_Index.aspx#121564>. -- \ “Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.” —Mark | `\ Twain, _Pudd'n'head Wilson_ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
