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The document describes how to normalize a salesperson, company, and product line database into third normal form. It creates tables for salesperson-company assignments, company product lines, and salesperson product lines, and provides example INSERT statements to populate the tables. A SELECT statement is then used to reconstruct the original salesperson-company-line table from the normalized tables.

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The document describes how to normalize a salesperson, company, and product line database into third normal form. It creates tables for salesperson-company assignments, company product lines, and salesperson product lines, and provides example INSERT statements to populate the tables. A SELECT statement is then used to reconstruct the original salesperson-company-line table from the normalized tables.

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Chapter 1: Creating 47

CREATE TABLE company_line (


company_id VARCHAR ( 10 ) NOT NULL REFERENCES company,
product_line_id VARCHAR ( 10 ) NOT NULL REFERENCES product_line,
PRIMARY KEY ( company_id, product_line_id ) );

CREATE TABLE salesperson_line (


salesperson_id INTEGER NOT NULL REFERENCES salesperson,
product_line_id VARCHAR ( 10 ) NOT NULL REFERENCES product_line,
PRIMARY KEY ( salesperson_id, product_line_id ) );
Here is how the three new tables can be filled, with a SELECT to rebuild the
original table including the row showing that yes, salesperson 2 does in fact
handle cars for Acme:
INSERT salesperson_company VALUES ( 1, 'Acme' );
INSERT salesperson_company VALUES ( 2, 'Acme' );
INSERT salesperson_company VALUES ( 2, 'Best' );
INSERT company_line VALUES ( 'Acme', 'cars' );
INSERT company_line VALUES ( 'Acme', 'trucks' );
INSERT company_line VALUES ( 'Best', 'cars' );
INSERT salesperson_line VALUES ( 1, 'cars' );
INSERT salesperson_line VALUES ( 2, 'cars' );
INSERT salesperson_line VALUES ( 2, 'trucks' );

SELECT DISTINCT
salesperson_company.salesperson_id,
company_line.company_id,
salesperson_line.product_line_id
FROM salesperson_company
JOIN company_line
ON salesperson_company.company_id = company_line.company_id
JOIN salesperson_line
ON salesperson_company.salesperson_id = salesperson_line.salesperson_id
AND company_line.product_line_id = salesperson_line.product_line_id;
Tables requiring a separate effort to reach Fifth Normal Form are extremely
rare. In this example, if the special business rule was not in effect the original
salesperson_company_line table would be the correct choice because it imple-
ments a three-way many-to-many relationship among salesperson, company,
and product line... and it would already be in Fifth Normal Form. In most cases,
once youve reached Third Normal Form, youve reached Boyce-Codd, Fourth,
and Fifth Normal Forms as well.

1.17 Chapter Summary


This chapter described how to create the five different types of tables in SQL
Anywhere 9: global permanent, remote, proxy, global temporary, and local tem-
porary. Also discussed were the basic column data types; column properties like
COMPUTE and DEFAULT; and column and table constraints such as CHECK,
PRIMARY KEY, foreign key, and UNIQUE. The 12 rules for relational data-
bases and the six normal forms of good database design were explained.
The next chapter moves on to the second step in the life cycle of a database:
inserting rows.

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