The folklore of normalization

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Authors: Robert Buelow

Tags: 2000, conceptual modeling

The practice of data processing includes creating data models in the course of system planning and requirements definition work. Most data modelers use a technique that combines a variant of the Entity-Relationship modeling approach introduced in Chen (n.d.) with the schema normalization procedures that were first described by Codd (1970,1972). Upper CASE tools usually include a facility that supports this style of data modeling. Novices often find it difficult to assimilate the concepts and terminology of these techniques, and normalization seems to baffle all but the most persistent students.

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