Object Relational Mappers are evil (a meditation)

[Steve Holden]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> Mick Krippendorf <mad.mick at gmx.de> writes:
>>>> If I knew what First Anormal Form was I (hope!) 
>> I read it somewhere once, I just can't find or even remember the source.
>> I definitely didn't make it up, though I wish I had.
> 
> I found exactly one google hit for it, which is this clpy thread.

It's a pun on First Normal Form. To transform a schema into First Normal
Form you remove repeating groups from the entity and place them in a
newly-created entity, leaving a copy of the identifier column behind to
express a relationship between the two.

regards
 Steve
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