Re: Layout of "Itinerary" Record - A Database Design Question -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Layout of "Itinerary" Record - A Database Design Question
From: Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 16:12:04 -0600
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As a driver/navigator, I'd be more interested in the legs (graph
edges, option 2). As a tourist riding a bus, I'd (probably) be more
interested in the stops (vertices, option 1).

That's essentially the problem. Different people have different points of
view in regards to how they'd like to view the data. Database
administrators warn against basing record layouts how data is "viewed";
they rather favor normalization rules. However, in this case, both layouts
seem fairly well normalized.

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