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The practical need for fourth normal form

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Many practitioners and academicians believe that data violating fourth normal form is rarely encountered. We report upon a study of forty organizational databases; nine of them contained data violating fourth normal form. Consequently, the need to understand and user fourth normal form is more important than previously believed.

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          cover image ACM SIGCSE Bulletin
          ACM SIGCSE Bulletin  Volume 24, Issue 1
          March 1992
          313 pages
          ISSN:0097-8418
          DOI:10.1145/135250
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          • cover image ACM Conferences
            SIGCSE '92: Proceedings of the twenty-third SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
            March 1992
            332 pages
            ISBN:0897914686
            DOI:10.1145/134510

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