Slide 1 1 Schema Refinement and Normal Forms Yanlei Diao UMass Amherst April 10, 2007 Slides Courtesy of R. Ramakrishnan and J. Gehrke Slide 2 2 The Evils of Redundancy …
Normal Forms The Problems of Redundancy Redundancy is at the root of several problems associated with relational schemas: Wastes storage Causes problems with insert/delete/update…
Database Management System Normalization Process This Lecture Schema Refinement Normalization Schema Refinement - Review Conceptual Modeling is a subjective process…