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Q23

MCQ1 mark, −0.33

A database of research articles in a journal uses the following schema. (VOLUME, NUMBER, STARTPAGE, ENDPAGE, TITLE, YEAR, PRICE)\text{(VOLUME, NUMBER, STARTPAGE, ENDPAGE, TITLE, YEAR, PRICE)} The primary key is '(VOLUME, NUMBER, STARTPAGE, ENDPAGE)\text{(VOLUME, NUMBER, STARTPAGE, ENDPAGE)} and the following functional dependencies exist in the schema. \begin{align*}&(\text{VOLUME , NUMBER, STARTPAGE, ENDPAGE}) & \rightarrow \text{TITLE} \\ &(\text{VOLUME, NUMBER}) & \rightarrow \text{ YEAR} \\ &(\text{VOLUME, NUMBER, STARTPAGE, ENDPAGE}) &\rightarrow \text{PRICE} \end{align*} The database is redesigned to use the following schemas (VOLUME, NUMBER, STARTPAGE, ENDPAGE, TITLE, PRICE)(VOLUME, NUMBER, YEAR)(\text{VOLUME, NUMBER, STARTPAGE, ENDPAGE, TITLE, PRICE}) \\ \text{(VOLUME, NUMBER, YEAR}) Which is the weakest normal form that the new database satisfies, but the old one does not?

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