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A direct relationship between data elements in a relational database. Functional dependency (FD) states that one data element is dependent on another. For example, social security number (SSN ...

Everyone knows and loves the first three normal forms. We go through the process of normalization to remove redundancies in our data structures. But the redundancies we remove have nothing to do with ...

Contrast with functional dependency. The Goal Is Eliminate Transitive Dependencies When designing a database, "third normal form" is achieved by eliminating transitive dependencies in each table.