Consider the following relation:

This relation refers to business trips made by salesmen in a company. Suppose the trip has a single start_date but involves many cities and one may use multiple credit cards for that trip. Make up a mock-up population of the table.

a. Discuss what FDs and / or MVDs exist in this relation.
b. Show how you will go about normalizing it.


a. The TRIP relation has the following FDs and MVDs:

trip_id ? start_date
trip_id ?? cities_visited
trip_id ?? cards_used

b. Because there are no interdependencies, this relation can be trivially decomposed to conform to 4NF:

TRIP_DATE (trip_id, start_date)
TRIP_CITIES (trip_id, cities_visited)
TRIP_CARDS (trip_id, cards_used)

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