http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2007/08/17/4424917.aspx(Apologies to Stanley Kubrick, of course!) It was almost the very first blog post I ever wrote, back in end of November 2004, entitled Normalization and Microsoft -- whats the story? In it I mentioned that during my time at Microsoft I really had hearden-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2007/08/17/4424917.aspx#4429746Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:30:08 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4429746Doug<p>Perhaps &quot;normal&quot; is wishful thinking when it isn't applied to a minimal universal representation for the data.</p> <p>&quot;Normalize&quot; just sounds more impressive that &quot;cleanup&quot; or &quot;make valid.&quot;</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2007/08/17/4424917.aspx#4430668Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:38:09 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:4430668Michael S. Kaplan<P>I suppose we should be grateful and say hosanahs that they did not use&nbsp;<STRONG>Disambiguate</STRONG> in the title? :-)</P>