Authors: Henry C. Smith
Tags: 1985, conceptual modeling
A new simplified methodology for relational-database design overcomes the difficulties associated with nonloss decomposition. It states dependencies between data fields on a dependency list and then depicts them unambiguously as interlinked bubbles and doublebubbles on a dependency diagram. From the dependency diagram, a set of fully normalized tables is derived.Read the full paper here: https://cacm.acm.org/?mobile=false
