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Fifth Normal Form (5NF) : Example

Fifth normal form (5NF) is a state where a relation is in 4NF and contains no join dependencies or non-key attributes. To achieve 5NF, tables should be broken into multiple tables to avoid redundancy. An example database relating subjects, lecturers, and semesters is decomposed into three tables (P1, P2, P3) relating these entities to be in 5NF and prevent invalid combinations from being added.

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Fifth Normal Form (5NF) : Example

Fifth normal form (5NF) is a state where a relation is in 4NF and contains no join dependencies or non-key attributes. To achieve 5NF, tables should be broken into multiple tables to avoid redundancy. An example database relating subjects, lecturers, and semesters is decomposed into three tables (P1, P2, P3) relating these entities to be in 5NF and prevent invalid combinations from being added.

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7/2/2021 DBMS 5NF - javatpoint

Fifth normal form (5NF)


A relation is in 5NF if it is in 4NF and not contains any join dependency and joining should be
lossless.

5NF is satisfied when all the tables are broken into as many tables as possible in order to
avoid redundancy.

5NF is also known as Project-join normal form (PJ/NF).

Example

SUBJECT LECTURER SEMESTER

Computer Anshika Semester 1

Computer John Semester 1

Math John Semester 1

Math Akash Semester 2

Chemistry Praveen Semester 1

In the above table, John takes both Computer and Math class for Semester 1 but he doesn't take
Math class for Semester 2. In this case, combination of all these fields required to identify a valid
data.

Suppose we add a new Semester as Semester 3 but do not know about the subject and who will be
taking that subject so we leave Lecturer and Subject as NULL. But all three columns together acts as
a primary key, so we can't leave other two columns blank.

So to make the above table into 5NF, we can decompose it into three relations P1, P2 & P3:

P1

SEMESTER SUBJECT

Semester 1 Computer

Semester 1 Math

Semester 1 Chemistry

Semester 2 Math

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P2

SUBJECT LECTURER

Computer Anshika

Computer John

Math John

Math Akash

Chemistry Praveen

P3

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SEMSTER LECTURER

Semester 1 Anshika

Semester 1 John

Semester 1 John

Semester 2 Akash

Semester 1 Praveen

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