Oracle-L: RE: New buzz-word?

From: Mercadante, Thomas F <NDATFM_at_labor.state.ny.us>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 12:13:38 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0047F92B.20020617121338@fatcity.com>

Was this for the data or for the data dictionary? Sounds like the data dictionary.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 3:54 PM
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I don't really remember much how he described it - It was something along the lines of :

one table for entities
one table for attributes of those entities one table for relattionships amoung the entities one table that I can't remember

The whole thing was just too bizare to warrant serious discussion at the time.

Matt Adams - GE Appliances - matt.adams_at_appl.ge.com "Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi."

Larry Wall (creator of Perl)

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Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 3:33 PM
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wait-let me guess - - a fact and three dim tables.....

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Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 2:34 PM
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A dba I once worked with told me how a professor of his one day describe 9th normal form, which he described as holding everything in just four tables. I've never seen any reference to it anywhere else.

For me, once you get to Boyce-Codd NF, it's pretty much good enough.

Matt Adams - GE Appliances - matt.adams_at_appl.ge.com When someone says "I want a programming language in which I only need say what I want done", give him a lollipop.

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Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 1:33 PM
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How about hypernormalized meaning 4th or 5th normal form? 3rd Normal form is practical but 4th and 5th seems academic. Is it just me?

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Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 10:48 AM
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Good Morning All!

One of my SA's came to me asking if I know what it means to have 'hypernormalized' tables in a database. I am clueless. Has anyone heard of this, and if so can you point me to some FM's or other docs?

Thanx,
Mike

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Michael P. Vergara
Oracle DBA
Guidant Corporation

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