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Wednesday, September 12, 2007

What is 3NF?

A relation schema R is in 3NF if it is in 2NF and for every FD X     A either of the following is true

X is a Super-key of R.

A is a prime attribute of R.

In other words, if every non prime attribute is non-transitively dependent on primary key.



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RDBMS

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