[Informatics] Data normalisation

Mark mark at vceit.com
Tue Oct 4 20:47:53 AEDT 2016


Hi Robert.  Thanks for the message.

I have no worries about criticism of my materials.

The status of message recalls has never come up before, so I thought it
timely to establish a policy for the future.

Regards
Mark

On Tuesday, 4 October 2016, Robert Hind <robert at yinnar.com> wrote:

> Sorry Mark.
> And sorry that I ended up criticising one of your PowerPoint presentations
> which is freely available on your own vceit website.
>
> Robert Hind
> Ex Traralgon and Ashwood
> Retired
>
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> Behalf Of *Mark
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 4 October 2016 7:25 PM
> *To:* Year 12 VCE Informatics Teachers' Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [Informatics] Data normalisation
>
> I would have thought that if the sender of a message said that the post
> was not intended for the list, recipients would delete it, and
> certainly not respond to its contents.
>
> On Tuesday, 4 October 2016, Robert Hind <robert at yinnar.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','robert at yinnar.com');>> wrote:
>
>> Well Litsa you did send the ppt files to all of us and I was interested
>> enough to have a look at the example file.
>>
>> Now I must take exception to slides 26 and 27 - pics below
>>
>> Both the statements on yellow background are false. The HouseColor
>> depends only on the HouseName (or vice versa), not directly on the
>> StudentID.
>>
>> As almost noted in slide 28 " These two non-key fields are more
>> dependent on each other than they are on the primary key"
>>
>> The key 3NF rule here is: *"remove to a new table any non-key attributes
>> that are more dependent on other non-key attributes than the table key"*
>>
>> So we move HouseName and HouseColor to a new table and leave just
>> HouseName in the Student table.
>>
>> Robert Hind
>> Ex Traralgon and Ashwood
>> Retired
>>
>>
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>> *From:* informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:
>> informatics-bounces at edulists.com.au] *On Behalf Of *Litsa Tzelepis
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 4 October 2016 2:54 PM
>> *To:* Year 12 VCE Informatics Teachers' Mailing List
>> *Subject:* [Informatics] Data normalisation
>>
>>
>>
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