Informally describe the conditions to be met for a relation to be in Second Normal Form. In terms of functional dependency, describe why the following CUSTOMER_PURCHASE relation is not in second normal form. This table describes every instance of an individual Customer purchasing a Product. How would this relation suffer from Update Anomalies? CUSTOMER_PURCHASE (CUSTOMER_ID, PRODUCT_ID, PURCHASE_DATE, PURCHASE_AMT, PRODUCT_DESCRIPTION, CUSTOMER_NAME)   Note the relation’s primary key is underlined

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  1. Informally describe the conditions to be met for a relation to be in Second Normal Form.
  2. In terms of functional dependency, describe why the following CUSTOMER_PURCHASE relation is not in second normal form. This table describes every instance of an individual Customer purchasing a Product.
  3. How would this relation suffer from Update Anomalies?

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(CUSTOMER_ID, PRODUCT_ID, PURCHASE_DATE, PURCHASE_AMT, PRODUCT_DESCRIPTION, CUSTOMER_NAME)  
Note the relation’s primary key is underlined

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