From a truly serious viewpoint (sorry to spoil the party - hic), I believe that IT practitioners should be regulated like the legal and medical professions. In the UK if...

This might come in handy, thanks.

Jeff Moden (3/4/2010)

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timclaason (3/3/2010)

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And although the "SQL Ninjas" out there were quite offended by the simplicity of the article, along with non-standard terms I used (normalization versus decoupling, bridge tables...

marvin.elder (3/4/2010)

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Actually I have to throw a criticism here to our good friends at SqlServerCentral.com for allowing this article to be posted. I'm guessing the 90% of the readers...

Tim,

I certainly hope that none of my comments caused offence. I always intend to improve my own knowledge and try to achieve that through reading followed by intelligent debate. The...

Thanks for this. I really learnt something new here.

BTW, I love the URLs in the comments (do the same thing myself) as it is a great way to document something...

As for the email address one, I (and a lot of other people) got dumped by an ex-free provider without any warning a few years ago. Instantly no access to...

tstaker (3/2/2010)

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@ the critics out there. If you don't like the article read another or better yet write a better one. Remember that not everyone is at the...

That can't be the case as I got to this article...

bob.probst+sqlservercentral (3/2/2010)

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I had to smile when I read this post.

I've been working with databases for almost 20 years now and I was hoping to see some interesting approach...

Karen Lopez-396111 (3/2/2010)

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All this discussion about what to call these tables points out that we as a profession do a lousy job of defining our profession ;-).

These tables can be...

david.kelly-653902 (3/2/2010)

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I was hoping to learn something new by reading the article (and I do have a lot to learn). I had not heard of the Bridge table or Decoupling,...

Tim,

As a IT practitioner I am sure that you understand that common terminology is essential in maintaining clarity. It is a good article as an introduction to the technique for...

No worries Bill.

I feel it is essential to correct people when they are wrong or mistaken. I rely on people correcting me ALL the time.

We are all noobz at something...

Surely, depending on ones perspective the many-to-many relationship is defined in a link table that decouples entities at either end of...