Re: Checking normalisation

On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 20:18:50 +0000, Dag2070 wrote:

> what do u mean by funtional dependencies? the names outside of the
> brackets are the table names, inside are attributes where OrderID,
> CustomerID, ItemID are primary keys
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Are you trying to normalize relations and you don't know what a functional dependency is?

Either you are a troll or the course you are taking sucks.

Anyway, you can read about functional dependencies in any (serious) book that covers the basics of databases, like C. J. Date's "An Introduction to Database Systems".

Or for a short intro you can do a Google search. You will find several references. You can start with this:

http://www.cs.uh.edu/~marek/notes/lecture10/ Received on Fri Feb 21 2003 - 04:57:58 CET