I was just going to write similar thing. This shows that there is a significant percentage of HN users, who haven't had formal introduction to basic CS concepts.
I'm one of those people. I was your typical web monkey, learning everything from how-to guides and O'Reilly books. Luckily I had the chance to read O'Reilly's Oracle Design (1997), which is actually a cleverly disguised general purpose RDBMS design handbook, including a good description of the normalized forms.
Comments
I was just going to write similar thing. This shows that there is a significant percentage of HN users, who haven't had formal introduction to basic CS concepts.
I'm one of those people. I was your typical web monkey, learning everything from how-to guides and O'Reilly books. Luckily I had the chance to read O'Reilly's Oracle Design (1997), which is actually a cleverly disguised general purpose RDBMS design handbook, including a good description of the normalized forms.