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Subject:Re: If you were going to learn... From:Michele Marques <msmarques -at- rogers -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 03 Apr 2002 07:38:28 -0500
Bonnie Granat writes:
> Also, can someone define "normalization" [in the context of relational
> databases]? The word is used and used and used but never defined in
> stuff I've seen.
This concept is discussed in databases classes, database textbooks, and
even in some tool-specific books (an advanced Access book I used several
years ago devoted a chapter to normalization).
The general idea of normalization is to reduce redundancy within your
database.
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