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Looks 5NF enough to me. That being said, names is an awful example; if you have to assume a specific structure from someone's name you kinda already lost [1][2
by ElectricalUnion 3y ago
Looks 5NF enough to me.
That being said, names is an awful example; if you have to assume a specific structure from someone's name you kinda already lost [1][2].
Better to just assume it's a opaque mutable unicode string and hope for the best.
[1] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...
[2] https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names-with-examples/ https://shinesolutions.com/2018/01/08/falsehoods-programmers...