Beyond fulfilling 1NF and 2NF requirements, reaching 3NF normalization comes down to really one thing. You must remove columns that are not solely dependent on the table's primary key. This is where some DB designers start to get confused. It's easiest to evaluate 3NF failures by analyzing each …
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Database Normalization
According to Chapple (2000), Normalization is "the process of efficiently organizing data in a database." He explains that the two goals of normalization are "eliminating redundant data (for example, storing the same data in more than one table)" and "ensuring data dependencies make sense (only …
