Extra for experts on database normalization and its benefits and tradeoffs. Our database course got as far as 3NF; “you are like little baby” etc., this post gets to “virtual 6NF”!!!! !!!

As software developers, we can solve any problem by adding one level of abstraction, and database modeling is not an exception. I’m going to show that any database could be represented as a number of relations in either 6NF or 4NF, and why it’s useful.