Database Design -Normalisation

Anon

I am taking a course about databases and I am already having difficulty getting to grips with normalisation and 1st Normal Form through to 3rd Normal Form - WOULD ANYONE KNOW ANY WEB LINKS WHERE IT MAKES IT EASIER FOR A SIMPLE PERSON LIKE ME TO UNDERSTAND.

Thanks

gid__

www.google.com is your friend

my first search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=bcnf+1st+form+3rd+form&btnG=Google+Search

resulted in this page:
http://www.magicnet.net/~jbryson/BGTCS_INDEX.HTML

Personally, I've never quite understood that stuff when I took my db class, and it still confuses me. Even though I've been doing database programming/design for well over 2 years now. 🙂

Maybe I should read over that url that I found as well. 🙂

gid__

Doh, that pages that that page links to no longer exist. There's still plenty of decent links on the google results page, although I lot of em seem pretty cryptic and as hard to understand as I always felt the subject was.

If I get energeic and find a better page, you'll be first to know. 😉

Anon

Here is an online tutorial that goes step by step -- I didn't read through the entire thing, but it looks good..

http://www.wdvl.com/Authoring/DB/Normalization/

John
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Anon

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/barry20000731.php3

a good one right here on this site.