Databases Reference
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O R T H O G O N A L I T Y
To repeat something I said in Chapter 1, database design is not my favorite subject. The reason is that so little of
design practice is truly scientific; normalization is scientific, of course, but not much else is. However, the topic of
this part of the topic, orthogonality, does represent another small piece of science in what's otherwise still (sadly) a
fairly subjective field.
