What is a good KISS description of Boyce-Codd normal form?

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悲哀的现实 2021-01-31 04:16

What is a KISS (Keep it Simple, Stupid) way to remember what Boyce-Codd normal form is and how to take a unnormalized table and BCNF it?

Wikipedia\'s info: not terribly

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  •  -上瘾入骨i
    2021-01-31 04:59

    The best informal answer I've read is that, in BCNF, every "arrow" in every functional dependency is an "arrow" out of a candidate key. I don't recall the source, but it was probably something Chris Date wrote.

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