Database Normalization By: K. Turner Normalization in its most literal sense means: To make (a text or language) regular and consistent, especially with respect to spelling or style. 1 Normalization with regard to database technology takes on a slightly different meaning, but the concepts of consistency and organization remain the same. As a database grows, it grows not only in size, but also complexity. This inevitability provides a need to maintain order and organization. The best …showed first 75 words of 1005 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1005 total…keys (FK) are then placed in the appropriate tables to provide relationships and to maintain referential integrity between the newly created tables. Bibliography 1 Excerpted from the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition Copyright © 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company 2 Database Systems 5th Edition Rob and Coronel 3 Systems Analysis and Design in a Changing World 2nd Edition Satzinger, Jackson, and Burd 4 http://www.devshed.com/ 5 http://www.utexas.edu/its/windows/database/datamodeling/index.html