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 ...