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Database: Relational: Normalization: What is normalization?

Apr 17th, 2008 23:34
Taksh Verdhan, Knud van Eeden, Deepak Bansal, Rachit Bagda,

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--- Knud van Eeden --- 01 January 2021 - 07:34 pm --------------------
Database: Relational: Normalization: What is normalization?
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Normalization is the process of separating repeated information into
separate tables.
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In the simplest case you have one table with all your information in
it.
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But this will soon lead to duplication of data, so making it
possibly more error prone and involved to change the same data
in different places.
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So soon you might start to separate that information into
seperate tables.
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So you have in general a tree hierarchy of tables.
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For example: a tree of employee tables
                            employee
                                |
            +-------------------+----------+
            |                              |
        jobhistory                       offspring
            |
       salaryhistory
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For example: a tree of customer and order tables
        Customers
            |
          Orders
            |
       OrderDetails
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To know which table corresponds with the others, you create links
between the different tables. Here this links are called keys.
A simple way of doing this is to use just numbers
(similar to pointers and indirection).
So for example, you might add an extra column to a table, with unique
numbers.
In the other tables, you can then use this unique number to reference
to that row position in the table.
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Now here normalization is a systematic method to split this information
(especially the unique keys) into its subtables through this tree
hierarchy.
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Internet: see also:
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Database: Relational: Normalization: Simple: How to do normalization?
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/27720/fid/147
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