Question: 4.1 What is the Functional Dependency (FD)? Give an example using the notation of FD X-> Y. 4.2 Given the following table BOOKS (ISBN, Title,

4.1 What is the Functional Dependency (FD)? Give an example using the notation of FD X-> Y.

4.2 Given the following table

BOOKS (ISBN, Title, FirstAuthorName, AuthorBirthYear, Edition, AuthorEmail, AuthorNationality, Publisher, Publisher Address, Publisher-Email, EditorName, EditorPhone).

4.2.1 List all Functional Dependencies implied by this table. (using the notation X -> Y).

4.2.2 How many themes does this table imply?

4.2.3 What the problems (anomalies) may this table have?

4.2.4 How do you decompose (normalize) this table into a set of tables to avoid problems you stated in 4.2.3 ?

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