Everyone knows and loves the first three normal forms. We go through the process of normalization to remove redundancies in our data structures. But the redundancies we remove have nothing to do with ...

The integrity of database systems is increasingly dependent on maintaining high data quality while enforcing robust consistency rules. Data quality encompasses the accuracy, completeness, and ...

Occasionally one may hear that a data model is “over-normalized,” but just what does that mean? Normalization is intended to analyze the functional dependencies across a set of data. The goal is to ...