On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 10:18, Robert Walker <[email protected]> wrote:

> For more details see:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_normal_form#Repeating_groups

I had considered suggesting going with a complete separate table of
names, containing a person_id (or in this use-case, fullname_id),
sequence number, and string, but that seemed like overkill.  It would
be "normal", but IMHO HAGNI.  :-)

-Dave

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