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From: donovan@hpindwa.HP.COM (Donovan Hsieh)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Do you normalize?
Message-ID: <36270003@hpindwa.HP.COM>
Date: 25 Jul 89 20:48:06 GMT
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/ hpindwa:comp.databases / allbery@nc386.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) /  3:14 pm  Jul 24, 1989 /
> Not having been able to find anything describing normalization (maybe I need
> to take a day off and raid a college bookstore?), I go no farther than the 3NF
> descibed in the Unify 4.0 (Accell 1.4) manuals.  At least, I think I go no
> farther; not knowing what 4NF is, how would I know?)

> Any suggestions as to book titles to look for when I descend upon the local
> university?

If you hate mathematics, read the follwoing two books :

	1. Database System Concepts  by Henry F. Korth &
					Abraham Silberschatz

		McGraw-Hill International Editions

		page 200 - 209

	2. Data Models	by Dionysios C. Tsichritzis &
			   Frederick H. Lochovsky

		Prentice-Hall

		page 292 - 297


Otherswise, read the following two books :

	1. The Theory of Relational Databases  by David Maier

		Computer Science Press

		page 124 - 142


	2. Principles of Database and Knowledge-Base Systems Volume I by
		Jeffrey D. Ullman

		Computer Science Press

		page 420 - 422 & 443


Donovan Hsieh
Business Network Division
Hewlett-Packard