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Even if you do need to query inside the array, how is this different from something like WHERE x like 'prefix%'? Is that a violation of 1NF too?


Arguably, yes, because you haven't really broken your data down as much as you need to; but this is a fairly contentious issue - just see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_normal_form#Atomicity. If you are frequently needing to query inside data, you may well gain from moving that 'prefix' into a separate column, or more drastically rethinking your data model if that's appropriate.


In this example prefix is something the user typed in. So textcolumn LIKE '%blahblah%'.




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