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- From: eandersn@mach1.wlu.ca (Niels Ejvind Andersen)
- Subject: Re: Classic Problem - Side by Side Blocks
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- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 02:55:49 GMT
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- Jennifer Farnham (v045100@otis1.stortek.com) wrote:
- : Block A has: Block B has:
- : Name Age Sex
- :
- : Jenny 20 F
- : Bob 30 M
- : Sue 40 F
- :
- : I don't want to put Sex as a non-database field in
- : Block A, (i've got a reason for this).
- : Since i'm not real familiar with 3.0, I thought there
- : might be something out there I'm missing...
-
- Hi Jenny,
-
- My e-mail reply to you bounced, so I am posting my reply.
-
- Hopefully, this application is not so far into the design stage that it cannot
- be changed. I see a one-to-one relation between NAME and SEX, and such a
- relationship is usually an indication that the two attributes belong in the
- same entity, i.e. in the same table. Why are they not in the same table?
- If they were, you wouldn't have this problem.
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- Niels Ejvind Andersen eandersn@mach2.wlu.ca / 70511.2302@compuserve.com
- Information Systems Phone: (519) 884-1970 x2760
- Wilfrid Laurier University Fax: (519) 886-9351
- Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5 Canada ... VFR NC4
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