Database Normalization
Updated September 15, 2022
Database Normalization can be complicated. The definitions of the various "normal forms" are academic and not very practical. All this can leave one feeling lost. Hopefully, this guide can help. This guide aims to be a practical, succinct guide to database normalization for the working software engineer. In what follows we will look at the first few normal forms and their properties in simple language. (If you just want a table of normal forms and their properties, check out this table.)