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Now for BCNF, we have a slightly different circumstance. This is because here, an attribute within a composite candidate key has a functional dependency on a non-key attribute. Again, since the ...

For example, social security number (SSN), product number and customer number are all functionally dependent on one name. See normalization and transitive dependency.