Section 14.13. Exercises

14.13. Exercises

Q1:

Is this database fully normalized?^[13] If not, what would need to be done to normalize it? What reasons might exist for not fully normalizing a database?

^[13] "Normalization" is a process of eliminating database redundancy and of theoretical optimization of the data model. A decent introduction to the concepts may be found at http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/intro-to-normalization.html.