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What is normalization?

Mid MySQL
Quick Answer Normalization organizes a database to reduce redundancy and improve data integrity. The process involves decomposing tables into smaller, more focused tables and defining relationships between them. This reduces update anomalies (updating one place instead of many), insertion anomalies, and deletion anomalies. Trade-off: more tables = more JOINs, which can impact query performance.

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Normalization organizes data to reduce redundancy and improve integrity by splitting into logical tables.
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