Chapter 9
Apply Your Knowledge April 8,2018 A. Pick and Shovel Construction Company Situation: Pick and Shovel Construction Company is a multistate building contractor specializing in medium-priced town homes. C. T. Scott, the owner, is in your office for the third time today to see how the new relational database project is coming along. Unfortunately, someone mentioned to C. T. that the delay had something to do with achieving normalization. “Why is all this normalization stuff so important?” he asks. “The old system worked OK most of the time, and now you are telling me that we need all these special rules. Why is this necessary?” Question: 1. How should you respond to C. T.? Write him a brief memo with your views. Answer: Normalization is very important for it is a process of avoiding problems in data design. Also, it is a process of reducing redundancy and multivalued fields. Pick and Shovel Construction Company would provide online transaction processing whe
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