How to Convert stuff into 3rd national form…

February 11, 2008

Guys, as part of the how to do series…this week we shall learn how to convert data into third national form. For this purpose we will take up the example of a library data that is present in an un-normalised form and then try and convert it into 3rd national form…

The attributes:

Roll No.

Name

e-mail

Address

Phone no.

Late fine outstanding

Book title

Book Author

Book ISBN

Book price

Library catalogues no

Quality of copy

Date issued

Date of return

 

Now, the next step is to identify certain entities and distribute the attributes to them. The one’s highlighted in green below are the entities.

 

Student

Roll No.  (Primary Key)

Name

Late Fine Outstanding

Email-id

Phone no.

 

Book

Book ISBN  (Primary Key)

Library catalogue no.  (Function Key)

Book Title

Book Author

Book price

 

 

Book List

Library Catalogue no  (Primary Key)

Quality Of Book

No. Of Copies

 

Issue Details

Issue Id  (Primary Key)

Roll No  (Function Key)

Library catalogue no (Function Key)

Issue date

Return date

 

That’s it folks…until next time….Keep the faith..

Entry Filed under: Uncategorized. .

Leave a Comment

Required

Required, hidden

Some HTML allowed:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <pre> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Trackback this post  |  Subscribe to the comments via RSS Feed


Calendar

February 2008
M T W T F S S
    Mar »
 123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
2526272829  

Most Recent Posts