normalisation
The process of designing a database according to the five generally accepted rules of normal forms. Normalisation is a technique designed to ensure that the data structures used in a system are efficient and maintain integrity, for example, to remove duplication of data.
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schema
data integrity
database
database management system (DBMS)
data redundancy
normalise
relational database
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Software
databases - relational
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