L' Eomot Inversé (10/6/2011)
mtassin (10/5/2011)
I think a big part of this is the flavor of Normalization Kool-aid we're using.For instance, this paper that's referenced isn't necessarily Normalization Form mainstream.
I find it amusing to see a claim that a seminal paper by the man who id now director of the UCLA Web Information System Lanboratory and holder of UCLA's N. E. Friedmann Chair in Knowledge Science, an associate editor of VLDB Journal, who has been program chair or general chair of VLDB (more than once), SIGMOD CMD, NACLo, NID, EDBT, and chaired HotSWUp in April this year should be dismissed as not necessarily mainstream.
Look, you've been drinking his Kool-aid. And you agree with him.
But I also find no mention of EKNF on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization
I'm not saying it's an invalid concept, what I'm saying is that expecting people to know a branch of Normalization that isn't part of the maintstream, and then getting worried when only 2% of us know what the heck you're talking about, and you talking about it like it's the best thing since sliced bread is just silly.