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Database design and normalisation techniques exam tips
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Database design and normalisation techniques
AqaA LevelComputer ScienceFundamentals of databases
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State the dependency clearly
When explaining a normalisation decision, identify the key, state which attribute depends on which, and then explain why a relation should be split.
This demonstrates the reasoning behind the decomposition instead of merely naming the resulting tables.
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