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Second normal form (2NF), in database normalization, is a normal form. A relation is in the second normal form if it fulfills the following two requirements: A relation is in the second normal form if it fulfills the following two requirements:
The objectives of normalization beyond 1NF (first normal form) were stated by Codd as: To free the collection of relations from undesirable insertion, update and deletion dependencies. To reduce the need for restructuring the collection of relations, as new types of data are introduced, and thus increase the life span of application programs.
First normal form (1NF) is a property of a relation in a relational database. A relation is in first normal form if and only if no attribute domain has relations as elements. [ 1 ] Or more informally, that no table column can have tables as values.
Even if you provide a mathematical definition of 1NF, being in 1NF will be independent from being in 2NF. The quote from the article is wrong if 1NF is included. 2NF and higher are defined mathematically, and these definitions are such that for each i > j > 1, every database in iNF is also in jNF. Hence, for all NFs above 1, the quote is correct.
There was nothing wrong with the 1NF example being in 2NF as well. As has been explained before on the discussion pages of some of the other NF articles, and in the main database normalisation article, normalisation is not an iterative process: we do not normalise to 1NF, then to 2NF, then to 3NF, etc.
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In Boolean algebra, a formula is in conjunctive normal form (CNF) or clausal normal form if it is a conjunction of one or more clauses, where a clause is a disjunction of literals; otherwise put, it is a product of sums or an AND of ORs.
In database normalization, unnormalized form (UNF or 0NF), also known as an unnormalized relation or non-first normal form (N1NF or NF 2), [1] is a database data model (organization of data in a database) which does not meet any of the conditions of database normalization defined by the relational model.