Normal Form

See Also: first normal form, second normal form, third normal form
[database structures] A set of guidelines for designing table and data structures in a relational database.

First normal form (1NF or Minimal Form) is a normal form used in database normalization. A relational database table that adheres to 1NF is one that meets a certain minimum set of criteria.

Normal forms of RDBMS
break large tables into small tables that contain simple functional dependencies
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Main article: Database normalization
Relations are classified based upon the types of anomalies to which they're vulnerable.

Then the Hessian normal form of the plane is
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(Gellert et al. 1989, p. 540), the (signed) distance to a point is ...

' Normalization is a database design that allows for efficient access, storage, and maintenance of data in an object relational database. The level of normalization that must be met is Third Normal Form.

See also: Relation, Relational Database, Database, Object, Attribute