2011-11-14
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Tom Thomson
- Interests: Music, song, singing, gaelic poetry, computers, databases, declarative languages, mathematics, natural languages and linguistics, science fiction and fantasy, walking, scrambling.
2011-10-12
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2011-10-05
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Third Normal Form
The third article in our series on normalization from Tom Thomson continues with an explanation on what constitutes third normal form.
2011-07-28
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Second Normal Form
In this article Tom Thomson takes a look at what second normal form means, how it is violated, and how you can fix it. This is part of our normalization series.
2011-07-14
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First Normal Form
Learn the basics of first normal form and what that means to a database designer from Tom Thomson.
2011-06-30
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2011-01-11
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2010-06-24
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2010-04-23
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