Re: Normalisation review

"JOG" <jog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> My count is 2 former students now not on their degree because, yes,
> plaguarising other people's answers in a coursework is cheating.

Absolutely. But his homework question was *show how* the above is a
non-loss decomposition. *His* question to us was "what is non-loss
decomposition?"

I have no idea how he slept through that in class, but unless all you
trigger-happy college professors out there assign trivial homework questions
like "define such-and-such" then it was a fair question that ought to have
got at least a page reference in a text book as an answer.

He's lazy, not a cheat. You've all come quite close to defaming him, which
is pretty disgraceful too.

And to the OP, look in the index of your text book, or Date's Introduction
to Database Systems.

Roy


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