Normalization is the process of organizing columns into tables within a relational database in such a way as to minimize redundancy and avoid insertion, update and deletion anomalies.
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Multilingual Dictionary Database question
Let's say someone is coding a multilingual dictionary in PHP, and he wants to let people submit both words and definitions in English and Spanish, but wants to track it so they can be filtered. ...
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Duplicate column for faster queries?
The title doesn't make to much sense but i couldn't think a better title for this problem.
I have the following tabels
Projects
id
name
Customers
id
id_project
name
Payments
id
id_customer
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Do higher normalized forms always meet the criteria of lower ones?
For example, a database that is 3NF is always 1NF and 2NF; does this hold for 4, 5, and 6?
