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Normalization

Normalization. Reading Assignments. Database Systems The Complete Book: Chapters 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 Following lecture slides are modified from Jeff Ullman’s slides for Fall 2002 -- Stanford. Closures. Closure of attributes (A + ): find keys

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  1. Normalization

  2. Reading Assignments • Database Systems The Complete Book: Chapters 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 • Following lecture slides are modified from Jeff Ullman’s slides for Fall 2002 -- Stanford CSCE 520

  3. Closures • Closure of attributes (A+): find keys • Closure of FDs (S+): projection of FDs to decompositions of schema • Canonical cover: minimize the number of functional dependencies • Important for updates CSCE 520

  4. Canonical Cover • Combine FDs if possible and eliminate extraneous attributes: Given a set of FDs S, and an FD XY • Attribute A is extraneous in X if S logically implies (S-{XY})  {(X-A)Y}. • Attribute A is extraneous in Y if the set of FDs (S-{XY})  {X(Y-A)} logically implies S. CSCE 520

  5. Canonical Cover • No functional dependency in Sc contains an extraneous attribute • Each left side of a functional dependency in Sc is unique. CSCE 520

  6. Example Canonical Cover • Given: • A  BC • B  C • A  B • AB  C • Combine 1 and 3 into: A BC • From 2 and 4: A is extraneous in 4: BC • C is extraneous in 1: A  B • Result: AB, BC CSCE 520

  7. Problems of Relational Database Design • Loss of information (lossless-join) • Inability to represent certain information (dependency preservation) • Repetition of information (normal forms) CSCE 520

  8. Desirable Properties of Decomposition – Lossless-join • Lossless-Join: Let R be a relation schema, S a set of FDs on R, R1 and R2 a decomposition of R. R1 and R2 form a lossless-join decomposition if at least one of the following functional dependencies are in S+ • R1  R2  R1 • R1  R2  R2 CSCE 520

  9. Create Lossless-Join Decomposition • Let R be the DB Schema and f: X  Y an FD in S+ • Decompose R into two relations • R1(X,Y) • R2(R-Y) • Continue for each decomposed relation until cannot be decomposed any more CSCE 520

  10. Desirable Properties of Decomposition – Dependency Preserving • Dependency Preservation: all dependencies that hold on the original schema should be able to test on individual schemas after decomposition. • Testing dependency preservations on projections is straight forward. CSCE 520

  11. Testing dependency preservations on decomposition • Let S be the original set of FDs on R, and S’ the union of FDs on projections R1, R2,…,Rn. • A decomposition is dependency preserving if S’+=S+ CSCE 520

  12. Desirable Properties of Decomposition – Avoid Redundancy FD: O.Name  O.Address, O.Phone D.Name, D.Breed  D.Color, D.Age CSCE 520

  13. Decomposition and FDs • Functional dependencies: can be used in designing a relational database to remove the undesired properties • Normalization using FDs: • Boyce-Codd Normal Form (BCNF) • 3rd Normal Form (3NF) CSCE 520

  14. Boyce-Codd Normal Form • A relation is in Boyce-Codd Normal Form if for all FDs X  A in S+ over R at least one of the followings hold: • X  A is a trivial FD • if X  A is a nontrivial FD then X is a superkey for schema R • Example: • R(Name,Breed,Date, Kennel) • FD: Name,Breed,Date  Kennel • R is in BCNF CSCE 520

  15. Decomposition into BCNF • Compute S+ (for FDs in S); • if there is a R that is not BCNF then - let XA a non-trivial FD on R s.t. XR is not in S+ and X  A = ; - Decompose R into: • R1(R-A) • R2(X,A) CSCE 520

  16. BCNF • Not every BCNF decomposition is dependency preserving • Example: • FDs: AB  C and C B • Keys: {A,B} and {A,C} • C  B is BCNF violation, therefore need to decompose to R1=(AC) and R2=(BC) • Decomposition cannot enforce AB C! CSCE 520

  17. Third Normal Form • Modifies BCNF conditions so no need to decompose in this problem situation • An attribute is prime if it is member of any key • X  A violates 3NF if and only if X is not a superkey and also A is not a prime. CSCE 520

  18. 3NF Conditions • A relation is in 3NF if for all FDs X  A in S+ over R at least one of the followings hold: • X  A is a trivial FD • if X  A is a nontrivial FD then X is a superkey for schema R • Each attribute B in A-X is contained in a candidate key for R CSCE 520

  19. 3NF and BCNF • BCNF gives • Lossless-join • No-redundancy • Dependency preservation not always possible • 3NF gives • Lossless-join • Dependency preservation • May have null values (transitive dependencies) CSCE 520

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