Re: 2NF Controversy

On Sun, 30 May 2004 09:19:01 -0400, Laconic2 wrote:

> If a column did not depend on the key at all, the table would not be in
> 1NF.

?

As far as I know, 1NF mandates that

• values be scalar (i.e. without any meaningful sub-components)
• the base relations cannot have repeating groups.

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