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Exercise 2 - Tutorial Problem-Solved in Class

The document discusses a book relation with attributes BookTitle, AuthorName, BookType, ListPrice, AuthorAffiliation, and Publisher. It states there are functional dependencies between BookTitle and BookType/Publisher, BookType and ListPrice, and AuthorName and AuthorAffiliation. The document asks what normal form the relation is in and to apply normalization until it can no longer be decomposed.

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Exercise 2 - Tutorial Problem-Solved in Class

The document discusses a book relation with attributes BookTitle, AuthorName, BookType, ListPrice, AuthorAffiliation, and Publisher. It states there are functional dependencies between BookTitle and BookType/Publisher, BookType and ListPrice, and AuthorName and AuthorAffiliation. The document asks what normal form the relation is in and to apply normalization until it can no longer be decomposed.

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Exercise 2_Tutorial Problem-Solved in class

A dependency FD: X Y means that the values of Y are


determined by the values of X.
Consider the following relation for published books:

BOOK(BookTitle, AuthorName, BookType, ListPrice,


AuthorAffiliation, Publisher)

Suppose the following functional dependencies exist:

BookTitle ->BookType, Publisher


BookType->ListPrice
AuthorName ->AuthorAffiliation

What normal form is the relation in? Explain your answer.


Apply normalization until you cannot decompose the relations
further.

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