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From: "Paul J. Harris" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] OT maybe - TMG or ? to record/publish VRs
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 08:29:51 -0400
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20030430202109.00a3d880@pop.sprynet.com>


>>I am interested in why you think that putting Vital Records into a
>>relational database would require me to make assumptions about the
>>relationships of the data.

I was referring to the process of "normalizing" a flat file database from a
spreadsheet into a relational database. I merely meant that that "process"
would want to combine all the John Smiths into a single record, which would
be fine as long as you acknowledged that it is a record of a NAME, not a
person.

Good luck with the project!

Paul

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