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What is normalization according to you and explain its different levels?

Answer Posted / Gaurav Kumar Bajpai

Normalization is a process in database design aimed at organizing data in a way that minimizes redundancy, improves data integrity, and allows efficient manipulation. Normalization involves dividing a database into two or more tables, and defining relationships between them to ensure data consistency. There are several normal forms (NF) of which the most common are:
1. First Normal Form (1NF): Eliminates repeating groups and duplicates, ensuring each cell contains a single value.
2. Second Normal Form (2NF): Each non-key column depends on the primary key.
3. Third Normal Form (3NF): Eliminates transitive dependencies, where a non-key column does not depend on any other non-key columns.
4. Boyce-Codd Normal Form (BCNF): No non-trivial functional dependency involves a proper subset of the primary key.
5. Fourth Normal Form (4NF): All relations are in 3NF and have no multi-valued dependencies or join dependencies.

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