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Week Eight Term Project

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1. Going off this table, there are several relationships in the pilot's report, and all of their

information takes place. Every airline can have several pilots, but the pilots are the ones

who can only work for one airline. The pilotID identifies every entry in the database, and

this connection can be one of the many if needed, so this is not a dependency

relationship. In this table, the primary key for the database is the pilotID. This report

focused on the airline (thing) and pilot (person) as the initial entities.

2. A functional dependency is a relationship between two or more attributes in a database

table where one attribute's value determines another's value (Thomas Connolly, 2014). In

other words, if two attributes are functionally dependent, one attribute's value uniquely

determines the other's value. For instance, in this table are a few, namely airlineID - - >

NPlanes, NRoutes, and NPilots. With this, NPilots, NRoutes, and NPlanes depend

functionally on the airlineID, making the airlineID determinant of NPilots, NRoutes, and

NPlanes.

3. Multiplicity refers to the number of instances of an entity that can be associated with

instances of another entity through a relationship. The relationship between the initial

entities is one-to-many, which means that each instance of the first entity can be

associated with multiple instances of the second entity. Still, each instance of the second

entity can only be associated with one instance of the first entity. For instance, pilotID

can be connected with other fields, but the pilot can only work for one airline, so it is

impossible to connect them technically to other airlines. In this table, below are a few

examples of how one-to-many can be linked.

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4. A). First Normal Form (1NF) is a property of a relational database table where each

column contains atomic (indivisible) values.

This relational table schema is already in 1NF. This is because no values repeat themselves in

the columns; the values are separated in every row. A person is capable of visualizing this by

checking on Sally and John. Both entities have their own set of values attributed to them and

are separated in rows.

B. Second Normal Form (2NF)

2NF is a property of a relational database table where each non-key column is functionally

dependent on the table's primary key.

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To assist in making the original table in the 2NF, I was able to split the table into two separate

tables. These tables are separated by their functional dependencies and primary keys. I came up

with one for the airlineID and its correlating dependencies and one for pilotID and its

dependencies. I could do this because the airlineID and pilotID entities uniquely identify their

dependencies.
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Reference

Thomas Connolly, C. B. (2014). Retrieved from Database Systems: A Practical Approach to

Design, Implementation, and Management: