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fourth normal form

fourth normal form noun: a stage in the normalization of a relational database in which a database is in Boyce-Codd normal form and all multi-valued dependencies are functional dependencies.

Noun

fourth normal form

  1. A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which a database is in Boyce-Codd normal form and all multi-valued dependencies are functional dependencies.

Questions about fourth normal form

What does fourth normal form mean?
Fourth normal form means a stage in the normalization of a relational database in which a database is in Boyce-Codd normal form and all multi-valued dependencies are functional dependencies.
What part of speech is fourth normal form?
Fourth normal form is a noun.

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