Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The SQL specification defines four transaction isolation levels, although a fifth transaction ...

The University at Buffalo depends on custom software to fulfill its mission. It is critical that these software systems are developed using industry best practices to ensure the University protects ...

The word "normal" permeates many aspects of our lives—from medicine to fashion, intelligence testing to behavior. However, beneath its comforting surface lies a more complex and potentially limiting ...

Everyone knows and loves the first three normal forms. We go through the process of normalization to remove redundancies in our data structures. But the redundancies we remove have nothing to do with ...

If you’re building generative AI applications, you need to control the data used to generate answers to user queries. Simply dropping ChatGPT into your platform isn’t going to work, especially if ...

Abstract: Relational database normalization is a formal data organization process that seeks to make the database more flexible by eliminating data redundancy and inconsistencies. Informally, a ...

Description: Normalize the database to Second Normal Form (2NF). Second Normal Form (2NF) removes partial dependencies; this means that all non-key attributes are fully functionally dependent on the ...

Take advantage of connection resiliency in EF Core to detect errors and retry commands and enable your ASP.NET Core application to overcome transient faults. A high-quality application must be stable, ...

Abstract: This research proposes an approach that uses nonrepeating groups as the basis for decomposing relations. A repeating group refers to a column or set of columns that have duplicated data ...

Must be in 1NF. No partial dependencies: All non-key attributes must be fully functionally dependent on the primary key. If it's a composite primary key, no column should be dependent on just part of ...