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Fourth Normal Form (4NF

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Fourth Normal Form (4NF):

The database must satisfy the following two things;

 The database must meet all the requirement of 3NF and BCNF
 There should be no more than one multi-valued dependencies.

According to the 4th normal form, a record type should not contain two or more independent multi-valued
facts about an entity.
Consider STUDENT, Hobby, and languages, where a STUDENT may have several Hobbies and several
languages.
Here, we have 2 many-to-many relationships;
Between STUDENT and HOBBY: Many STUDENT can have many HOBBIES.
Between STUDENT and languages: Many STUDENTS are fluent in many LANGUAGES.
Under the 4NF, these two relationships should not be represented in a single record such as

The table is Not in 4th Normal Form


STUDENT HOBBY LANGUAGE
1 Cricket English
1 Poetry Urdu
2 Cricket Hindi
2 Poetry English
Table: The Student table with more than one multi-valued dependency. (For example, one student can
have many hobbies and similarly one student can have many languages.)
Instead, they should be represented in the two records

The tables are in 4th Normal Form


STUDENT HOBBY
1 Cricket
1 Poetry
2 Singing
Table: Hobby table with just one multi-valued dependency

STUDENT LANGUAGE
1 English
1 Urdu
2 Hindi
Table: Language table with just one multi-valued dependency
Note here that the tables are in 1NF, 2NF, 3NF (including 3.5 NF) and also in 4NF because there are no
more than one multi-valued dependencies.

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