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Information Systems Program

Module 11
Normalization Concepts and Practice

Lesson 4: Practical Concerns


Lesson Objectives
• Reflect on role of normalization
• Reflect on importance of normalization
• Reflect on situations to relax normalization
requirements

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Competing Roles of Normalization

Refinement
• Use after ERD
• Few FDs

Initial Design
• FDs first
• ERD after FDs

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Normalization Importance
• Update biased
• Not a major concern for databases without updates (data
warehouses)
• Relax normalization sometimes

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Denormalization
• Purposeful violation of a normal form
• Some FDs may not cause anomalies in practice
• May improve performance
• Common for data warehouses

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Denormalization Example
• ZipCode  City, State
• Important for ecommerce business for sales tax
• May be important for ecommerce databases

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Summary
• Covered practical issues
• Use normalization as a refinement approach
• Do not lose context of normalization when performing
details

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