[Year 12 IT Apps] Normalisation

Mon Feb 16 10:26:21 EST 2015

Hi all,

Short time reader, first time writer!

Great to hear the exam report is not far away.

Like Mark mentioned in his post-moterm I am very interested in the answer to MC Q20, regarding calculated fields in a database.

We use FIleMaker Pro, only 5% of the class got correct answer (1 out of 21). I thought it was D as well.

Really like the normalisation descriptions being offered!

Michael Cooper
ICT Co-ordinator

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On 13 Feb 2015, at 11:37 pm, ATKINSON-BUCK, Damien <Damien.ATKINSON-BUCK at ivanhoe.com.au<mailto:Damien.ATKINSON-BUCK at ivanhoe.com.au>> wrote:

Hi Michael,
            Below in italics is from an old post from Joseph Papaleo (who I hope doesn’t mind me re-posting) that I found fairly easy to drum in to my students, alongside the overly simplified version that I’ve pilfered bits of from Marks site,
1NF = horizontal
2NF = vertical
3NF = The key, the whole key and nothing but the key, so help me Codd

Cheers
Damien

In a nutshell, I've taught it as :

1NF - tidy the table(s) up horizontally
ie Fields contain only a single value eg Name: Mr Barney Rubble changes to
Title: Mr
Fname: Barney
Sname: Rubble

Remove repeating Groups (as per Mark's comments)

2NF - Tidy the table(s) up Vertically
Eliminate duplication in records down the table by using a Primary Key that each record refers to.
Continue to do this as often as required until duplication is removed from all tables- students should see the need for a new table if there is duplication with their own unique Primary Key.

3NF - Make all fields in a table Mutually Exclusive
ie, no field can rely on another.  eg table may contain "Quantity" and "Price", but it cannot contain "Total Cost" as Total cost = Quantity x Price.

Damien Atkinson-Buck
Head of Learning Area: Technology/Arts
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From: Poke, Michael C [mailto:poke.michael.c at edumail.vic.gov.au]
Sent: Friday, 13 February 2015 10:57 AM
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Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] Normalisation

Hi all,
Normalisation...... It's a swear word to me..... Is anyone willing to share their best resources to make it really simple for my students (and for me!) - I'm doing U3O2 first
(and yes, I am a frequent visitor to vceit.com<http://vceit.com/>).

Cheers,
Michael

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