The integrity of database systems is increasingly dependent on maintaining high data quality while enforcing robust consistency rules. Data quality encompasses the accuracy, completeness, and ...

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 ...

Fourth and fifth normal forms send us down a pretty, yellow brick road leaving behind functional dependencies to gather up join dependencies and their special child, multi-valued dependencies.

Software mapping is the practice of diagramming and visualizing the intricacies and dependencies within a software system. It gives a bird's eye view of the software's structure, helping developers ...