Practice Activity for DD 6.1 – 6.

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Gery J. Sumual (01123574291-53)

6.1 Artificial, Composite, and Secondary UIDs

Vocabulary: UID, simple UID, composite UID, artificial UID, candidate UID, Primary UID, secondary
UID
Try It / Solve It:
1. d, c, b, a
2. Even though using alternative information is not more accurate than the primary one, it
requires less demanding and more general input from the user, which could still yield the
proper result of their data, and therefore be more of a convenient way. For example, I want
to check the record of a person without knowing his/her membership ID, I want to be able to
find them in the database using a variety of more common data like name or email address.
Another example is that I want to sort the data using telephone number to know the
corresponding operator that each member use.
3.
a. City: Their name combined with their country.
b. A contact person for a customer: Their name and phone number.
c. Train: an artificial ID called train ID.
d. Road: their name combined with corresponding city
e. A financial transaction: an artificial ID called transaction code.
f. An award: Year and award title.
g. A painting: painting ID,year released combined with its title and author.
4. National identification system especially in developing country has an issue with inclusion or
the lack thereof. The formalization of a new ID system and tightening of identification
requirements could potentially marginalize vulnerable people who may not be covered by
the system, where previously people were able to prove their identities through alternate or
informal means.
5. There is many-to-many relationship between entity STAR and MOVIE, and here is the
resolve:

The entities that require multiple disks are CUSTOMER and CLUB MEMBER: the former has
one UID, that is, customer id; the latter have UIDs of current phone number and
membership number.
6.2 Normalization and First Normal Form
Vocabulary: first normal form (1NF), normalization
Try It / Solve It:
1. Look for an attribute that have multiple values, remove it and make an additional entity
based on that attribute with 1:M relationship to its original entity.
2. Every single attribute of any entity must be single-valued
3. a.

b.

c. The ERD is already in 1NF

6.3 Second Normal Form
Vocabulary: Second Normal Form (2NF)
Try It / Solve It:
1. Correction:

2. Correction:

3. Correction:
6.4 Third Normal Form
Vocabulary: Third Normal Form (3NF), Transitive dependency
Try It / Solve It:
1. The store name and store address attributes are dependent to each other and also
independent to the primary UID, violating 3NF.
2. Any non-UID attribute of an entity must not be dependent on another non-UID attribute.
3. Correction:

4. The attributes that involved in the transitive dependencies are team and team coach, agent
and agent commission.
5. The national identification system helps in improving targeting social programs and financial
inclusions, and also act as a simple valid qualification of a citizen as well as of usefulness to
variety of stakeholders. The benefits for our country Indonesia are that the national ID is
contained in a card and can be used easily to register for a variety of government and
private programs, applying for a job, opening a bank account, vote, and so on. Although,
issues may arise where the ID card becomes unusable, people with exceptions got excluded
because of lack of alternative means of identification, problems with registration, and the
risk of private data breach. For the matter of DNA mapping becoming the national ID card, in
my opinion is an extreme idea, it might be very effective but very much less efficient in its
implementation and incorporating too sensitive data.