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- From: thompson@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (William Thompson, code 682.1, x2040)
- Subject: Re: Normalizing 2NF -> 3NF
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 16:08:00 GMT
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- In article <1ejt9qINN340@hrd769.brooks.af.mil>, burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) writes...
- > While the statement you make in the example is true, you are not adhering to
- >the original statement. The One to One relationship described in Name, Address
- >and Phone is not valid for this question. Phone Number is Fully Functionally
- >Dependent on Address, not Name. Suppose four students share a house, or (a
- >military example) 50 airmen share a single barracks. The phone is only
- >transitively dependent on the name. It is functionally dependent on the
- >address. It is transitively dependent on the name (if it is dependent at all).
-
- On the other hand, when I move from one house to another, then my phone number
- moves with me, as long as I stay within the same exchange area. Also, when I
- move into a new house or apartment, I don't get the same phone number as the
- previous owner or tenant. In fact, since it's a long time since my student
- days, the dependence on name struck me before your example of the possible
- dependence on address did.
-
- Basically, its a bad example. Phone numbers, in the most general sense, are
- only transitively dependent on both the name and address.
-
- Bill Thompson
-