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(641 Week 5 Outline) (by Liping Liu) Lecture 1: Normalization (Chapter 11 of LIU)
Criteria for a good database design
Issues with data redundancies
The concept of normalization
Functional dependency: Tables 1 and 2
First Normal Form: Tables 3
Second Normal Form: Tables 1 and 5
Third Normal Form: Author Editor Example and Job Class Example
Lecture 2: Normal Forms
Third Normal Form: Table 6
Boyce-Codd Normal Form
Additional Examples:
Assume a customer can make several loans, with or without other partners... more >>
(641 Week 6 Outline) (by Liping Liu) Homework Review:
1) HW3-4 Review
2) Identify the functional dependencies in the following tables and then states whether each one is in 1st normal form and 2nd normal form or not... more >>
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