| Dany wrote:  the ''irreducible n-order predicate'' bit would suggest that
|              it isn't possible to go the other way, to store RDBMS data as triples
|              in the general case.
|
| IBL wrote:  Here's an example of a general method.  The first table is ''shredded''
|             to produce the last table, then reassembled using the rule
|
| You can view, run and change this agent by pointing a browser to reengineeringllc.com
| and selecting RelationToTriplesAndBackAgain


this-person works for this-company in this-location in this-state
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Joe Smith             Generic LLC     Houston           TX
Jill Baker            RabbitTech      Denver            CO


row some-row position 1 contains some-item1
row that-row position 2 contains some-item2
row that-row position 3 contains some-item3
row that-row position 4 contains some-item4
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the reassembled table has a row that-item1 that-item2 that-item3 that-item4


row this-row position this-position contains this-item
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    1                 1                      Joe Smith
    1                 2                      Generic LLC
    1                 3                      Houston
    1                 4                      TX
    2                 1                      Jill Baker
    2                 2                      RabbitTech
    2                 3                      Denver
    2                 4                      CO