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IT 450 Functional Dependencies Exercise

The document describes the requirements for a university database to track student transcripts. It includes attributes for students, departments, courses, sections, and grades. The functional dependencies that should hold among the attributes are not specified. The task is to design a relational database schema for this application by identifying the functional dependencies and creating relations in third normal form (3NF) or Boyce-Codd normal form (BCNF) with key attributes specified for each relation.

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IT 450 Functional Dependencies Exercise

The document describes the requirements for a university database to track student transcripts. It includes attributes for students, departments, courses, sections, and grades. The functional dependencies that should hold among the attributes are not specified. The task is to design a relational database schema for this application by identifying the functional dependencies and creating relations in third normal form (3NF) or Boyce-Codd normal form (BCNF) with key attributes specified for each relation.

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IT 450 Functional Dependencies Exercise Suppose that we have the following requirements for a university database that is used

to keep track of students transcripts: a. The university keeps track of each students name (sname); student number (snum); social security number (ssn); current address (scaddr) and phone (scphone); permanent address (spaddr) and phone (sppone); birth date (bdate); sex (sex); class (class) (freshman, sophomore, graduate); major department (majorcode); minor department (minorcode) (if any); and degree program (prog) (B.A., B.S., , Ph.D). Both sssn and student number have unique values for each student. b. Each department is described by a name (dname), department code (dcode), office number (doffice), office phone (dphone), and college (dcollege). Both name and code have unique values for each department. c. Each course has a course name (cname), description (cdesc), course number (cnum), number of semester hours (credit), level (level), and offering department (cdept). The course number is unique for each course. d. Each section has an instructor (iname), semester (semester), year (year), course (seccourse), and section number (secnum). The section number distinguishes different sections of the same course that are taught during the same semester/year; its values are 1,2,3,, up to the total number of sections taught during each semester. e. A grade record refers to a student (ssn), a particular section, and a grade (grade). Design a relational database schema for this database application. First show all the functional dependencies that should hold among the attributes. Then design relation schemas for the database that are each in 3NF or BCNF. Specify the key attributes of each relation. Note any unspecified requirements, and make appropriate assumptions to render the specification complete.

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