The document discusses database normalization. It defines three normal forms: first normal form requires each cell to contain a single value and records to be unique; second normal form requires all non-key fields to depend on the whole primary key; third normal form requires all non-key fields to depend only on the primary key. An example shows a database normalized to third normal form, with the postal code moved to its own table since other fields depend on it rather than just the primary key. The summary is to normalize data such that all non-key columns depend only on the primary key.