ITPEC FE Morning October 2023 Question 26

Source exam: ITPEC FE Morning October 2023Topic: Databases

ITPEC FE Morning October 2023 — Question 26 of 80

Normalization — the method used to remove data redundancy in relational databases.

Normalization decomposes tables into smaller ones to eliminate duplicate data, using normal forms (1NF → 2NF → 3NF → BCNF).

Why not others:
- (a) Entity-relationship — a data modeling technique (ER diagrams), not a redundancy removal method

- (b) Functional dependency — a concept (A → B) used during normalization, but not the method itself

- (c) Hierarchical — a type of database model, unrelated to removing redundancy

Key distinction: Functional dependency is the criterion; normalization is the process that applies it.

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