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Old 11-22-03, 07:06
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do I normalise with OO?

Hi, having designed an OO class diagram, is it possible to normalise this?
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Old 11-23-03, 11:24
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When you design an OO class-diagram, realize that you are building a functional view of the system. Objects are not merely inanimate things: they are moving parts.

A database schema built to support an OO-designed system should be thought of as a way to provide "persistence" to those objects .. as well as a "huge filing cabinet of reference information that can be used to create new instances of objects."

The architecture of a typical (SQL) database may or may not be object-oriented. Nonetheless, one of the characteistics of your OO design must be that "only the objects know" about the database. You deal with the objects; the objects deal with the DB.
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