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Foreign Keys with Composite Key

Imagine I have a table with the following dependency: (Name, BoughtFrom, TimeBought) --> Cost Where the three attributes in bold form a composite primary key for the table. Now then, I want to ...
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MySQL - Normalization over meaningless data - Compound Primay Keys or Surrogate ID field

Please forgive my title; if you have a suggestion for it, feel free to comment. I have a database: DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `books`; CREATE TABLE `books` ( `isbn` VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL, `title` ...
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Optimised Schema for City-to-City Distance Table

This is my first question, forgive me if this question is simple. I'm stuck here, trying to implement the relations for the data represented below. I want to scale it vertically (new rows), instead of ...
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Can I place the attribute in the Entity, when the foreign key is also already present?

I am using DBdesigner Fork for generating ER diagram. I have the 'Company' as an entity for which can I place the attribute of 'idShares', despite of having the foreign key of Shares Entity in the ...
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View for a MANY_MANY_MANY relationship

Let's say I have 3 main tables: category, tag, url category and tag have a MANY_MANY relationship (category_tag). tag and url have a MANY_MANY relationship (url_tag). I would like for a given ...
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How to normalize Time Sheet data?

I am having a terrible time finding an appropriate way to store this data in a database. The current excel (simple) version looks something like this: http://i.stack.imgur.com/BEZOw.png Staff and ...