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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Why is dynamic pivoting not supported?

TL;DR What is the reason that in 2013 we still can't define a VIEW that displays some pivoted data with a dynamic column set. TL;DR/2 Is pivoting data a denormalization technique? First: Not going ...
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Unable to decompose this relation to BCNF

I have a relation R = { A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I } And functional dependencies F ={ ABC -> DE E -> C AB -> F C -> G F -> H H -> IJ F -> B } I am able to do simple BCNF ...
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Difficulty in finding Candidate Keys

I have an homework which should be submitted tomorrow I normaly know normalization concepts but in some questions I have difficulty. How should i normalize this to BCNF? Can you show the steps please? ...
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Help with normalization - Homework

I'm confusing myself a lot here. I did this before however have never got the hang of it. So I really need help, main issue is 2nf I just get the dependencies completely wrong. So I am practising ...