Path: text.usenetserver.com!out02a.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in01.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in02.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!postnews.google.com!j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Lollie Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Need some help on Normalization Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:01:53 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 24 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 74.166.20.152 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1223643713 22497 127.0.0.1 (10 Oct 2008 13:01:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:01:53 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=74.166.20.152; posting-account=8OsMoQoAAAAUQNiNsFOgc1RT-FXxlRvB User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: usenetserver.com comp.databases.oracle.server:448566 X-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:01:54 EDT (text.usenetserver.com) You identify the following attributes, in part, for the Employee entity: Employee number (Primary key) Full name Phone number Supervisor number What change should you make to ensure that the entity is normalized to the 1st normal form (1NF)? A) Separate the full name into first, middle (optional), and last names. B) Use a different primary key value. C) Move the supervisor to a different table. D) Separate the phone number into separate fields. I see the table as looking like this: *Emp # (PK) Full name Phone# Supervisor#* 123 Joe Smith 123-4567 1 888 John Doe 555-1212 2 316 Jack Pi 888-8080 1 451 Suzy Q 457-7410 3 Anybody have any comments? Thanks is advance - is there an answer