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Describe the characteristics of a table that violates first normal form (1NF) and then describe how such a table is converted to 1NF.

Describe the characteristics of a table that violates first normal form (1NF) and then describe how such a table is converted to 1NF.

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kelvin
The rule for first normal form (1NF) is a table in which the intersection of every column and record contains only one value. In other words a table that contains more than one atomic value in the intersection of one or more column for one or more records is not in 1NF. The non 1NF table can be converted to 1NF by restructuring original table by removing the column with the multi-values along with a copy of the primary key to create a new table. See Figure 8.4 for an example of this approach. The advantage of this approach is that the resultant tables may be in normal forms later that 1NF.
kevowmuchiri answered the question on July 9, 2018 at 19:00

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