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Explore Stack Internal‘Orthogonal’ means independantindependent of each other. That implies that no information is duplicated or repeated in two variables, like a server name, and then a connection string that contains the server name.
In your example, database host, port, username, and password, would all be orthogonal, as they are not repetingrepeating anything, and are independantlyindependently changeable (unless you repeat tethe port withinthewithin the database host variable, which makes little sense)
‘Orthogonal’ means independant of each other. That implies that no information is duplicated or repeated in two variables, like a server name, and then a connection string that contains the server name.
In your example, database host, port, username, and password, would all be orthogonal, as they are not repeting anything, and are independantly changeable (unless you repeat te port withinthe database host variable, which makes little sense)
‘Orthogonal’ means independent of each other. That implies that no information is duplicated or repeated in two variables, like a server name, and then a connection string that contains the server name.
In your example, database host, port, username, and password, would all be orthogonal, as they are not repeating anything, and are independently changeable (unless you repeat the port within the database host variable, which makes little sense)
‘Orthogonal’ means independant of each other. That implies that no information is duplicated or repeated in two variables, like a server name, and then a connection string that contains the server name.
In your example, database host, port, username, and password, would all be orthogonal, as they are not repeting anything, and are independantly changeable (unless you repeat te port withinthe database host variable, which makes little sense)
