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What is normalization?

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normalizationschema design

Question

What is normalization?

Solution

Normalization organizes data to reduce:

  • Duplicate data
  • Update anomalies
  • Inconsistency

For example, instead of storing customer details repeatedly in every order, keep customers in one table and reference them using customer_id.

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