>With all the hullabalOOP about object oriented design and design patterns, I'm glad to see that discussions about relational database design aren't obselete in the press.
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>My first Enterprise Development magazine (wheeee!) arrived this week and has the first in a 4-part series on data design called "Design From First Principles: Head off curruption at the pass with good data design" by Carmine Mangione. Hurrah!
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>Occassionaly there are posts about data designs that don't follow relational theory. It's disturbing to me if we neglect in our discussions the foundation of any system (my soapbox, I admit).
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>One interesting (to me) point was that it's a mistake to apply object-oriented softawre design techniques to data modeling. Do you agree? Disagree? Why?

It is my opinion that in working with non-OO databases, you end up with the same table structures if you go down the data normalization process or down the OO analysis path. And some of the times it is not practical to apply either of them as they come out by the book. JMHO