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OurSQL Episode 7: What's it Like To Be Normal?

Posted January 30th, 2007 by sheeri

In this episode, I go over database normalization in general and explain 1st Normal Form (1NF) in depth.
Direct play episode 7 at:
http://tinyurl.com/2fbhy2
Subscribe to the podcast by clicking:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=206806301
You can Direct download all the oursql podcasts at:
http://technocation.org/podcasts/oursql/
Links:
MySQL binaries centralized repository: http://tinyurl.com/3anjfa
SQLzoo
http://www.sqlzoo.net
Links about database normalization:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1NF
http://www.datamodel.org/NormalizationRules.html
http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/intro-to-normalization.html
http://www.utexas.edu/its/windows/database/datamodeling/rm/rm7.html
Acknowledgements
http://www.technocation.org
http://music.podshow.com
http://www.russellwolff.com
http://www.smallfishadventures.com/Home.html “The Thank you song” — Smallfish
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[...] Sheeri Kritzer, the MySQL She-BA, has posted the seventh episode of her podcast, OurSQL: What’s it Like to be Normal?. It’s about database normalization in general, and the 1st Normal Form (1NF) in particular. She also has a link to a centralized List of MySQL 5.x binaries. [...]

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