On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 13:51 +0100, Tony Marston wrote:
> "Richard Heyes" <richardh@phpguru.org> wrote in message
> news:481EF634.6010705@phpguru.org...
> >> I do not agree that creating a database which is normalised to3NF is a
> >> waste of time.
> >
> > It isn't always, but it is sometimes. When time is a (significant) factor,
> > getting something up and running (which has acceptable performance) may be
> > more impotant than creating a technically perfect solution. In fact
> > creating something that is technically perfect is often just a pipe dream
> > for programmers.
>
> You obviously do not understand what "technically perfect" means when it
> comes to data normalisation. 3NF is considered to be "good enough" while
> 4NF, 5NF and 6NF is considered to be "perfect".

Perfectly tedious ;)

Cheers,
Rob.
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