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petalmind | 1 year ago

Ah, okay.

Yeah, I was thinking about the way how to actually build a non-1NF database. So far my best idea is to store sqlite files as blobs in a different database.

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emmelaich|1 year ago

Even that is 1NF, probably. As long as you don't have the id,blob duplicated in a table.

1NF (depending on the definition) has a few subtleties that make it either impossible to avoid in any relational database or almost impossible to enforce!

By impossible to avoid, I mean the basic rectangular shape of a table.

By impossible to enforce, I mean the avoidance of duplicates (without indexes) and NULLs.