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Challenge: Build MySQL table that's not in first normal form [closed]

I have read numerous books and articles about database design and SQL in which it is said that a database should be in first normal form (1NF). (Some then go on to describe situations in which it may ...
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1answer
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Splitting a column to normalized table

I have a de-normalized table as Original De-Normalized Table id text 23 first,second|third,fourth,fifth|sixth I want to normalize the database to create the following tables Table 1: (Split by ...
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Does my table violate normalization rules?

I am developing an emulator for a game. My item table looks like this: -- ---------------------------- -- Table structure for `items` -- ---------------------------- DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `items`; ...
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is id and phone number enough to uniquely identify a row in phone numbers

Was designing a table a customer_phone_numbers table a while back, which only purpose was to allow us to store as many phone numbers as a user wanted to have on file. I originally came to the ...
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Database Design Issues

My question consists of three parts: When can I be sure that my database design is perfect? Is returning to the database design to change some issues (i.e, adding new column, deleting a column, ...
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4answers
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Storing arrays of integers in database (for efficient select)

I am creating a database that will store 100.000 (and probably more in the future) users. While this obviously happens in a table with 1 row per user, every user can (and will) store hundreds of ...
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Query to normalize table/combine row text

I have a table (call it oldTable) with columns like so: ID (int),Rank (int),TextLineNumber (int),SomeText (varchar) The primarykey is multi-part: ID+Rank+TextLineNumber. I'm trying to ...