CHAPTER 5
Normalization
I do not like being famous. I like being normal.
—Vince Gill, American country singer
By now, you should have built the conceptual and logical model that covers the data requirements for your database system. As we have discussed over the previous four chapters, our design so far needn’t follow any strict format or method (even if it probably will), the main point being that it does have to cover the data-related requirements for the system that needs to be built.
Now, we come to the most hyped (and sometimes most despised) topic in all relational databasedom: normalization. It is where the theory meets reality, and we ...
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