Normalization is the process of organizing data in a database to reduce redundancy and dependency by dividing larger tables into smaller ones and defining relationships between them. It ensures data integrity and avoids anomalies like update, insert, or delete anomalies. Normalization is essential for efficient database design and maintenance.
Database normalization is necessary to eliminate data redundancy and ensure data integrity and consistency. By organizing data into multiple related tables and reducing duplication, normalization helps to save storage space and improve the efficiency of data retrieval and update operations. It also prevents anomalies, such as update anomalies and insertion anomalies, by ensuring that each piece of data is stored in only one place.
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The purpose of normalization is to reduce the chances for anomalies to occur in a database. The Normalization also forces you to use a database in a Object orientated manner. (This is good of course.)
There are 3types 1) Update Anomalies 2) Insertion Anomalies 3) Deletion Anomalies
The three types of anomalies likely to show up are: Insertion, Deletion, and Update anomalies.
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Normalization is used in databases to reduce redundancy and improve data integrity by organizing data into tables and defining relationships between them. It helps to prevent anomalies such as insertion, update, and deletion anomalies that can occur when data is not properly structured.Normalization also ensures that the database is more efficient and easier to maintain in the long run.
Data Normalization - is the process of evaluating and correcting table structures to minimize data redundancies and reduce data anomalies (insert, update and delete). It works through a series of stages called normal forms, typically 1,2 and 3 and uses the technique of identifying functional dependency to check compliance at each stage. Basically it attempts to store data only once and in the correct place, so that when any changes are made to the database there is no chance that there is another copy of this information stored somewhere else and hence could lead to the above mentioned (insert, update and delete) anomalies.
the inventor of the relational model, introduced the concept of normalization and what we now know as the First Normal Form (1NF) in 1970.[1] Codd went on to define the Second Normal Form (2NF) and Third Normal Form (3NF) in 1971,[2] and Codd and Raymond F. Boyce defined the Boyce-Codd Normal Form (BCNF) in 1974.[3] Informally, a relational database table is often described as "normalized" if it is in the Third Normal Form.[4] Most 3NF tables are free of insertion, update, and deletion anomalies.
It sounds like your experiencing "duplication anomalies". Most anomalies can be prevented by normalizing your database. Third normal form should prevent most anomalies in a simple contact database (look into "3NF" and "normalization"). Basically, duplication anomalies come from flaws in how your table and keys are set up. You may not have to tear down the whole base, but may need to export the data and reconstruct some of the tables. -APMc