Re: [Gnue-dev] Object-Relational Mapping?

[Reinhard Mueller]

Am Fre, 2003-01-17 um 19.41 schrieb Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti
Dutra:
> On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 18:39, Reinhard Mueller wrote:
> > 
> > It might be that we mean different things when we talk about "die-hard
> > normalization at any cost".
> 
>       What do you mean?

There are situations when normalization is ineffective and doesn't bring
anything.

(disclaimer: i could have misunderstood something)

For example, a rule of normalization says that there are no repeating
fields in a table. So for an address to have an address-line-1, an
address-line-2, an address-line-3 and a city, you would have to make two
tables, one containing the address-lines (one line per record) and
another one for the city. That isn't practical. And that's where I guess
we won't do normalization.

Thanks,
-- 
Reinhard Mueller
GNU Enterprise project
http://www.gnue.org

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