Jim,

>In addressing another point you raised, lack of knowledge of the logical design when working on a database design. Well, no approach on earth can adapt to the lack of documentation. Reverse engineering anything that you don't have documentation for has a unique set of problems that have nothing to do with the design itself, but rather with the lack of documentation.

To me, clearing this up was important. I felt we were talking about different things. Now, I know where you stand and how you look at normalization at the logical design.

Walter,