What is normalization? dec 2009
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Answer / akki julakanti
Normalization is a process to reduce the redundency in a
table.Here the redundency is reduced but not eliminated.
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Answer / tanuj
Normalization is process to remove the data redundancy from
a table.
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Answer / ratnam
Normalisation is the process of taking data from a problem
and reducing it to a set of relations while ensuring data
integrity and eliminating data redundancy
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