Consider the relation schema ACTIVITY (Stu#, Sport, Cost) and associated relation instance shown below: a. What is

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Consider the relation schema ACTIVITY (Stu#, Sport, Cost) and associated relation instance shown below:
Consider the relation schema ACTIVITY (Stu#, Sport, Cost) and associated

a. What is the minimal cover of ACTIVITY?
b. What, if any, immediate normal form violation exists in ACTIVITY?
c. Discuss each of the following three decompositions in the context of attribute preservation, dependency preservation, and lossless-join decomposition?
Da: R1a: STU-SPORT (Stu#, Sport)............R2a: SPORT-COST (Sport, Cost)
Db: R1b: STU-SPORT (Stu#, Sport) ............R2b: STU-COST (Stu#, Cost)
Dc: R1c: STU-COST (Stu#, Cost) ...............R2c: SPORT-COST (Sport, Cost)

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Data Modeling and Database Design

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Authors: Narayan S. Umanath, Richard W. Scammel

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