Quote: to design a database, should focus on facts to be maintained by the database [»kentW1_1984]

Quote: first identify facts to be maintained and then aggregate facts into data records [»kentW1_1984]

Quote: in fact-based analysis, start with facts instead of entities; do not need to distinguish relationship from attribute [»kentW1_1984]

Quote: in a pseudo-record, actual entities (e.g., employees) sit in fields of the record [»kentW1_1984]

Quote: initially, pseudo-records do not contain digital data and there is one record for each attribute of an entity [»kentW1_1984]

Quote: need to eliminate nonsymbol fields from pseudo-records to make them proper records [»kentW1_1984]

Quote: in conceptual modeling, relations are between objects instead of names of objects [»borgA1_1985]

Quote: a fact consists of identifying a relationship between surrogates [»kentW_1978]

Quote: with surrogates, a fact is an association of surrogates that correspond to objects in the fact [»kentW_1978]

Quote: when possible, a data record should aggregate all facts about an entity [»kentW1_1984]

Quote: instead of normalizing badly assembled records, should construct normalized records directly [»kentW1_1984]

Quote: merge pseudo-records when they have compatible keys [»kentW1_1984]

Quote: if a pseudo-record key allows zero participation, it can merge by padding with null values [»kentW1_1984]

Quote: in merging compound keys should only merge attributes of the same relationship [»kentW1_1984]

Quote: duplicate rows do not represent distinct objects; a fact is a fact; avoid redundancy [»coddEF_1990]