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Aug 21, 2003, 02:22 #1
Discussion thread for Concepts of Database Design and Management
This is a dedicated thread for discussing the SitePoint article 'Concepts of Database Design and Management'
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Feb 3, 2005, 02:29 #2anupam majumdarSitePoint Community Guest
Good one.But should contain more examples and detailed descriptions for the non-database people.
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May 17, 2006, 21:55 #3Ashish MehtaSitePoint Community Guest
This is great for beginner, All normal forms are well explained with easy examples that will help a lot to freshers, But it needs to be more elaborated for experienced.
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Jun 9, 2006, 11:44 #4
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Great article. Good overview of normalization to 4NF. However most would say that 3NF is the practical limit for most databases, is this true?
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Aug 19, 2006, 17:33 #5Jon SherrillSitePoint Community Guest
>Pootsy
No, although 4NF might be (there are more). I read of a beautiful summary of the first three levels of normalization:
Everything must depend on the primary key (1nf) the whole primary key (2nf) and nothing but the primary key (3nf).
The 4nf just makes the common-sense requirement that a table should only model one conceptual relationship, which if you're a programmer is fairly obvious anyway. Think of what your program wants to access, modify, and delete as a block, and you'll have a pretty good idea of what the columns should look like for a single table. A program isn't normally going to want a professor students and committees at the same time.
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Nov 26, 2006, 16:48 #6GarySitePoint Community Guest
You jumped into the terminology '1nf, 2nf etc without saying what the heck they mean
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