Chapter 10-3
Copyright © 2004 Ramez Elmasri and Shamkant Navathe
Elmasri/Navathe, Fundamentals of Database Systems, Fourth Edition
Chapter Outline
1 Informal Design Guidelines for Relational Databases1.1Semantics of the Relation Attributes1.2 Redundant Information in Tuples and Update Anomalies1.3 Null Values in Tuples1.4 Spurious Tuples2 Functional Dependencies (FDs)2.1 Definition of FD2.2 Inference Rules for FDs2.3 Equivalence of Sets of FDs2.4 Minimal Sets of FDs