•The process of organizing data in a database (in MySQL “database” = “schema”)

    •Includes creating tables and establishing relationships between those tables displayed in an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD)** according to rules designed both to protect the data and to make the database more flexible by eliminating redundancy and inconsistent dependency**

    •Redundant data wastes disk space and creates maintenance problems.

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    1NF: 1)primary key 2) no repeating groups
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    2NF: eilimiate redundant dataScreen Shot 2020-04-28 at 6.03.18 PM.png
    3NF: eliminate fields not dependent on key. **🌟🌟🌟**
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