Home exercise:
1.2. Normalize the following customer record
Customer Record
Customer No
Customer First name
Customer Surname
Address
Tel No
Supplier No
Supplier Name
Supplier Address
Stock No
Stock item
Stock cost
Description
Supplier Tel no
First, to normalize the above customer record lets first consider what is the process or normalization. Normalization help to
arranged or organize data to reduce data redundancy. Basically, there are three acceptable form of normalization in relational
database management system.
➢ First Form Normalization
➢ Second Form Normalization
➢ Third Form Normalization
Data Redundancy is the practice of data repeating itself in a record.
Second, to normalize the above record let present it in a horizontal table form.
Non-Normalize
C_no C_fn C_Sn Tel_no Supp_no Supp_name Supp_add Stock_no Stock_item Stock_cost Descrpt Supp_tel_no
Normalized Customer Table Normalized Supplier Table
C_no C_fn C_sn Tel_no Suppl_no Stock_no C_no Suppl_no Suppl_name Suppl_tel_no Suppl_add Stock_no
Normalized Stock Table
C_no Suppl_no Stock_no Stock-cost Stock-item Description