Re: Data Normalization Paradox

2001-10-31 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 03:49:12PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Frankly, I don't understand how doing this fixes the problem, > because now instead of the company name repeating (a string), the > company name id (an int)repeats. Could someone explain (maybe > convince is a better word) how

RE: Data Normalization Paradox

2001-10-28 Thread Sander Pilon
> -Original Message- > From: Ryan Fox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 29 October 2001 00:55 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Data Normalization Paradox > > > > Among other criteria, it mentions that in first order normalization

Re: Data Normalization Paradox

2001-10-28 Thread Ryan Fox
> Among other criteria, it mentions that in first order normalization "No repeating groups of data are allowed". It then gives a table with 3 rows of data, and shows that one of the columns (company name) has the same entry in two of the rows. It says "this table is not in 1st normal form". For

Data Normalization Paradox

2001-10-28 Thread kurt
Hi, This a question for the programmers out there with proper style/form. I'm about to start my first real PHP/MySQL project, and since I want to do it correctly, I got a book to help me. It gives some basic information on RDBM's and mentions an organizational process called normalization. B