Database Design: Choice of a Methodology

dc.contributor.author	King, M. C. F.
dc.contributor.author	Naude, G.
dc.contributor.author	von Solms, S. H.
dc.date.accessioned	2018-05-21T15:17:00Z
dc.date.available	2018-05-21T15:17:00Z
dc.date.issued	1979
dc.identifier.citation	M.C.F. King, G. Naude (1979) Database Design: Choice of a Methodology. Quaestiones Informaticae Vol 1 No 2, 1979	en
dc.identifier.issn	0254-2757
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/23983
dc.description.abstract	Aspects are discussed of the pract.Ical applicat.Ion of recent relatlonal theory The relevant defirut.Ions, extracted from vanous papers, have been restated usmg a common notat.Ion An attempt is made to descnbe unambiguously two competlng design procedures synthesis and 4NF decomposit.Ion, as a basis for the discuss10n It is argued that the key structure of the synthesized relat.Ions mcxlels the 'real world' naturally that the non-loss cntenon has quest.Ionable validity m pract.Ice, that 'uruqueness is equally a problem m both procedures, and that mult.Ivalued dependencies are difficult to 'recognize'	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Computer Society of South Africa (on behalf of SAICSIT)	en
dc.title	Database Design: Choice of a Methodology	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.description.department	School of Computing	en