As before, the solution is to take out this excess data and place it in its own table. What you are in fact doing at this stage is looking for transitive relationships, or relationships where a nonkey field is dependent on another nonkey field. Soil description, although in one sense ...
Today, in the era of Big Data and democratized data— and now AI—we have more data-driven insights available to us than ever. Most enterprises already collect and manage data using databases, CRM platforms or automation systems, but data in its many forms and entry types can lead to incon...
Do I store an entities name in the Entities table or in the table specific to that entity? I chose the non-normalized approach of storing a non-editable FullName in the Entities table and letting the type-specific tables organize the information according to its own needs. Users have a fir...
The relational model arose in an era when business records were, first and foremost, on paper. Its use of tables was, in some part, an effort to mirror the type of tables used on paper that acted as the original representation of the (mostly accounting) data. The need to support that ...