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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (7/3/2011)

    So why aren't you coming to Summit?

    A number of reasons: shortage of time (I had more spare time when working 169 hour weeks than I have now), shortage of...

    Tom

    July 3, 2011 at 5:09 pm

    #1347587

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (7/3/2011)

    Yup. MVPs get a massive discount straight off and we get a whole bunch of opportunities to help out with various of the summit events to get a complete...

    Tom

    July 3, 2011 at 3:49 pm

    #1347570

  • RE: First Normal Form

    Jeff Moden (7/2/2011)

    Tom,

    I share JJ B's sentiments. Whether I agree with the content of the article or not (and, considering the zealous and sometimes unprofessional retorts in this discussion...

    Tom

    July 2, 2011 at 10:50 am

    #1347460

  • RE: First Normal Form

    A couple of people have suggested that the normalised forms of the tables used as examples should have been included in the article (some in comments here, others in personal...

    Tom

    July 2, 2011 at 9:49 am

    #1347449

  • RE: Normalization

    PaulB-TheOneAndOnly (6/23/2011)

    fourteen, fourteen pages already on this thread!!! :w00t:

    There is an abundant amount of information on the posts of this thread but I'm affraid most people wouldn't read it from...

    Tom

    July 1, 2011 at 5:02 pm

    #1347375

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    ChrisM@Work (7/1/2011)

    Today's Random World: "Dragon's Egg".

    Starquake

    Tom

    July 1, 2011 at 12:07 pm

    #1347249

  • RE: First Normal Form

    Now for the serious answer to the interesting points in David's post.

    David Portas (7/1/2011)

    All the normal forms are concerned with dependencies satisfied by relations (or relation variables). If 1NF is...

    Tom

    July 1, 2011 at 11:57 am

    #1347244

  • RE: First Normal Form

    David Portas (7/1/2011)

    For example if you think that 1NF disallows certain types of value in a relation then that's something that isn't required by any other NF.

    I think we...

    Tom

    July 1, 2011 at 11:05 am

    #1347207

  • RE: Normalization

    David Portas (6/21/2011)

    Tom.Thomson (5/10/2011)

    Well, presumably one of the applicable values that a-null could be is 0, and it surely is not true that 0/0 delivers 0 (it should deliver something...

    Tom

    July 1, 2011 at 4:11 am

    #1346928

  • RE: First Normal Form

    Jan Van der Eecken (7/1/2011)

    Hi Tom,

    Firstly, thanks for a great article, and an even better discussion following up from it. I'm really looking forward to parts 2 and 3.

    Thanks. I'm...

    Tom

    July 1, 2011 at 2:59 am

    #1346916

  • RE: Data nearing to 4GB. is there is a way to extend size?

    I'm inclined to agree with Steve on this one -people are reading too much into that statement in the license. But I'm not a lawyer, and if I were...

    Tom

    June 30, 2011 at 8:35 pm

    #1346834

  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    jcrawf02 (6/30/2011)

    Gianluca Sartori (6/29/2011)

    One of the worst Celko posts ever.

    He must have stepped on dog poop today.

    Do me a favor, and translate that to Italian in your post? That's hilarious...

    I'd...

    Tom

    June 30, 2011 at 7:36 pm

    #1346827

  • RE: First Normal Form

    SanDroid (6/30/2011)

    Eric M Russell (6/30/2011)

    I never contain phone or address related columns in something like the primary customer table.

    #1 An address or phone number isn't an attribute or measure...

    Tom

    June 30, 2011 at 6:59 pm

    #1346825

  • RE: First Normal Form

    Steven993 (6/30/2011)

    The only key in relational theory is the candidate key. Or just "key". There is no notion of "primary" which indeed come from SQL.

    Indeed the notion of "primary" key...

    Tom

    June 30, 2011 at 6:37 pm

    #1346822

  • RE: First Normal Form

    KaplanDBA (6/30/2011)

    Setting aside the fact that I'd rather normalize this further than just 1NF, I want to understand your argument better:

    Well, NULL should always mean "The database doesn't contain this...

    Tom

    June 30, 2011 at 5:48 pm

    #1346816

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