An indirect relationship between data elements in a database. For example, social security number is a transitive dependency of date-of-birth (SSN->DOB), because it is dependent on name (SSN->NAME), ...

Varun Badhwar is CEO & Co-Founder at Endor Labs. Previously, he built Prisma Cloud for Palo Alto Networks following the RedLock acquisition. Packages arriving late, stores out of stock or overstocked, ...

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 ...

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), ...