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Re: OO and IBM z series COBOL was Re: Discussions of COBOLphilospphy

Howard Brazee

2007-10-16, 6:55 pm

On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:13:57 -0500, Robert <no@e.mail> wrote:

>If it were designed well, it wouldn't need to be smart because it wouldn't have any
>dependencies (except keys). It would be in normal form.
>
>The exception is reports, which can be kept up to date automatically by materialized
>views.

"Normal form" can be a religion. Do users care about Codd's rules as
long as they can have reliable data?

Actually users like data warehouses. How many data warehouses have
everything normalized?

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