Database Normalization - Discover and apply the techniques in your work Topic Understanding and mastering database normalization techniques is essential in order to achieve a high performance database design for your system. If your design doesn't conform to (at least) the 3rd Normal Form (3NF), chances are high that you will find it hard to achieve the performance needed for a successful application.
Furthermore, you will find that writing good SQL-statements (SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT or DELETE) is difficult, and sometimes actually impossible, without using a lot of procedural coding (PL/SQL in Oracle, VB/C# in Microsoft products).
Many "experts" will tell you that if you do normalization according to the 3NF, you're well off. This eBook proves the opposite, and is illustrated with graphical Entity Relationship examples.
Database Normalization eBook:
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The five Normal Forms This eBook will review all the 5 Normal Forms in database normalization normally used to analyze data models in the making.
The mission of this 50-page eBook is not to deliver academic definitions of the normal forms, but to communicate the author's practical experience in data modeling using database normalization techniques, built on more than 20 years of business experience with data modeling for government, industrial, communications and other large relational database customers.
The eBook also contains separate chapters on Boyce/Codd Normal Form (BCNF), and Domain Key Normal Form (DKNF). Consistent examples We use a consistent theme of accounts, departments, projects and transactions throughout the eBook, so you can easily review the consequences as we move from 1NF to 5NF. Entity Relationship & Database diagrams We also discuss pros and cons of denormalization with the aim of improving performance, and which consequences denormalization may have on your database. It is illustrated with more than 20 entity relationship diagrams, as well as database (server) models, and SELECT statements that use the model. Complete DDL scripts The eBook includes complete DDL (Data Definition Language) scripts for creating the tables, indexes and constraints from the example database model in the eBook, for both Oracle and MS SQL Server. This will give you a view of the components that need to be created in order to build a fully normalized sample database.
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