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Faculty of Business and Management: Staffno Dentistname Patno Pname Appointment Date Time Clinicno

The document contains a table listing dentist, patient, appointment date, time, and clinic data, with some dentists seeing multiple patients on the same day in different clinics. Students are asked to identify examples of anomalies that could occur in the table and normalize it into third normal form to avoid such anomalies. The goal is to break the table into multiple tables to avoid inconsistencies from updates, insertions, and deletions of related data.

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Faculty of Business and Management: Staffno Dentistname Patno Pname Appointment Date Time Clinicno

The document contains a table listing dentist, patient, appointment date, time, and clinic data, with some dentists seeing multiple patients on the same day in different clinics. Students are asked to identify examples of anomalies that could occur in the table and normalize it into third normal form to avoid such anomalies. The goal is to break the table into multiple tables to avoid inconsistencies from updates, insertions, and deletions of related data.

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Faculty of Business and Management

Subject Code : BMIS 32113


Subject Name : Database
Programme : BSc. (Hons) MIS
Lecturer : S. Sivaguru
Assignment :2
Date : 18 / 03 / 2015
Duration : 2 days

StaffNo DentistName PatNo PName Appointment ClinicNo


Date Time
S1011 Tony Smith P100 Gillian White 12-Sep-08 10.00 S15
S1011 Tony Smith P105 Jill Bell 12-Sep-08 12.00 S15
S1024 Helen Pearson P108 Ian MacKay 12-Sep-08 10.00 S10
S1024 Helen Pearson P108 Ian MacKay 14-Sep-08 14.00 S10
S1032 Robin Plevin P105 Jill Bell 14-Sep-08 16.30 S15
S1032 Robin Plevin P110 John Walker 15-Sep-08 18.00 S13

The table above lists dentist/patient appointment data. A patient is given an appointment
at a specific time and date with the dentist located at a particular surgery. On each day of
patient appointments, a dentist is allocated to a specific surgery for that day.

1. Provide examples of insertion, deletion, and update anomalies that can be found in
the above table.
2. Normalize the table until 3NF.

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