Consider the following relation for published books: BOOK (Book_title, Authorname, Book_type, Listprice, Author_affil, Publisher) Author_affil referes to

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Consider the following relation for published books:
BOOK (Book_title, Authorname, Book_type, Listprice, Author_affil, Publisher)
Author_affil referes to the affiliation of the author. Suppose the following dependencies exist:
Book_title -> Publisher, Book_type
Book_type -> Listprice
Author_name -> Author-affil
(a) What normal form is the relation in? Explain your answer.
(b) Apply normalization until you cannot decompose the relations further. State the reasons behind each decomposition.
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Fundamentals of Database Systems

ISBN: 978-0136086208

6th edition

Authors: Ramez Elmasri, Shamkant Navathe

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