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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

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.

Related terms
schemadata integritydatabasedatabase management system (DBMS)data redundancynormaliserelational databasetuple
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Software › databases - relational
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