Where can I find paper "Further Normalization of the Data Base Relational Model"?
I've been looking for this paper online for a few days now, with no luck: Codd, E. F. "Further Normalization of the Data Base Relational Model".
Does anyone happen to know how I can obtain it? I'd buy it, but I really can't find it anywhere. I need the electronic version of the paper.
The complete reference on Wikipedia is: Codd, E. F. "Further Normalization of the Data Base Relational Model". (Presented at Courant Computer Science Symposia Series 6, "Data Base Systems", New York City, May 24–25, 1971.) IBM Research Report RJ909 (August 31, 1971). Republished in Randall J. Rustin (ed.), Data Base Systems: Courant Computer Science Symposia Series 6. Prentice-Hall, 1972.
Is this really the first paper on 2NF and 3NF? If so, seems it should be better known.
Quote from dandl on November 1, 2020, 11:02 pmIs this really the first paper on 2NF and 3NF? If so, seems it should be better known.
I'd say it is well-known-of, rather than well-known in the sense people need to read it. All the textbooks cite it. But 3NF got rapidly overtaken by BCNF [1974], and then the higher normal forms [work by Ron Fagin, up to DK/NF 1981]. So today (or even back to the 1980's) practitioners can go by the more integrated texts.
I don't think there's any gems in that paper that could be mined for insights that have got ignored by the industry subsequently. Unlike the way people go mining in Codd's 1969 or 1970 papers.