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Quick questions on Normalisation: UNF to 1NF, 2NF and 3NF - SQA Advanced Higher Computing Science

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State the rule that a table must satisfy to be in third normal form, beyond being in 2NF. [1 mark]
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Name the anomaly where changing a duplicated fact in some rows but not others leaves the data inconsistent. [1 mark]

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