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The columns in a candidate key are called prime attributes, [3] and a column that does not occur in any candidate key is called a non-prime attribute. Every relation without NULL values will have at least one candidate key: Since there cannot be duplicate rows, the set of all columns is a superkey, and if that is not minimal, some subset of ...
A database relation (e.g. a database table) is said to meet third normal form standards if all the attributes (e.g. database columns) are functionally dependent on solely a key, except the case of functional dependency whose right hand side is a prime attribute (an attribute which is strictly included into some key).
A non-prime attribute of a relation is an attribute that is not a part of any candidate key of the relation. Put simply, a relation (or table) is in 2NF if: It is in 1NF and has a single attribute unique identifier (UID) (in which case every non key attribute is dependent on the entire UID), or
Every non-prime attribute has a full functional dependency on each candidate key (attributes depend on the whole of every key) [5] Every non-trivial functional dependency either begins with a superkey or ends with a prime attribute (attributes depend only on candidate keys) [5]
In 2000, Microsoft released an initial version of an XML-based format for Microsoft Excel, which was incorporated in Office XP. In 2002, a new file format for Microsoft Word followed. [9] The Excel and Word formats—known as the Microsoft Office XML formats—were later incorporated into the 2003 release of Microsoft Office.
In the Today's court bookings table, there are no non-prime attributes: that is, all attributes belong to some candidate key. Therefore, the table adheres to both 2NF and 3NF. The table does not adhere to BCNF. This is because of the dependency Rate type → Court in which the determining attribute is Rate type, on which Court depends.
Normalization (to first normal form) is a process where attributes with non-simple domains are extracted to separate stand-alone relations. The extracted relations are amended with foreign keys referring to the primary key of the relation which contained it. The process can be applied recursively to non-simple domains nested in multiple levels. [4]
A table (called the referencing table) can refer to a column (or a group of columns) in another table (the referenced table) by using a foreign key.The referenced column(s) in the referenced table must be under a unique constraint, such as a primary key.