Database Concepts (8th Edition)
Database Concepts (8th Edition)
8th Edition
ISBN: 9780134601533
Author: David M. Kroenke, David J. Auer, Scott L. Vandenberg, Robert C. Yoder
Publisher: PEARSON
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Normalization:

In database management system, normalization is a technique of organizing the data in the database without any redundancy. Redundancy in relation may cause deletion, insertion, and update anomalies.

Normalization is mainly used for two purposes. They are:

  • Reduce or eliminate redundancy in the database table.
  • Ensuring data dependencies.

Importance of Normalization process:

  • The normalization process is important while creating a table in the database, because the process will eliminate the redundancy of data in the database table.
  • The normalization process is then applied to each relation and the extra relations are created.

Example:

Consider the example of the above scenario is as follows:

number name age sex course
1 John 23 M C1
2

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