Re: Array of Integer

Posted in 1993

Colonel Panic — 9 Mar 93 04:20:46 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <1n74h1INNst7@access.digex.com> grimes@access.digex.com (Seth Grimes) writes: >InterBase (from Borland) and Progress are both RDBMSes with an array >datatype. I'd be interested in seeing more of an explanation of why this >violates normalization. I (also) have the view that an array can be >viewed as a single entity akin to a scalar field. The first rule of normalization is to get rid of repeating groups (e.g. arrays). This is the basic requirement to get to 1NF. -- Alan Denney aland@informix.com {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland Smith and Wesson: the Ultimate Point-and-Click User Interface.