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"Cuppa" Corner: Database Design What is and Why is Normalisation important? Domains, Functional Dependencies, Repeating Groups, First Normal Form.

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Time Starts (UK time) at 13:00 , Finishes 13:45
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Organiser UK SQL Server User Group
Address ONLine
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Tags Database Design, Normalisation, BCNF

This "Cuppa" Corner session will be published at midday, it will be a pre-recorded session; for Q & A just chat on the site or twitter using the #sqlfaq tag.

The recording is now available here:

http://sqlcontent.sqlblogcasts.com/video/cctr20100507dbdesign1nf/cctr20100507dbdesign1nf.html

Presenter: Tony Rogerson, SQL Server MVP
http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/tonyrogerson
http://www.sql-server.co.uk

In this 15 - 20 minute talk I will set the grounding as to why Normalisation is important, I will then go through First Normal form.

Whilst I will be using SQL Server to show examples I will keep to ANSI 92 so this talk will be vender neutral.

Agenda

What is and Why is Normalisation important?

Domains

Functional Dependancy

Repeating Groups

Relation Valued Attributes

First Normal Form

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