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Which one of the following statements about normal forms is FALSE?(a) BCNF is stricter than 3NF(b) Lossless, dependency-preserving decomposition into 3NF is always possible(c) Lossless, dependency-preserving decomposition into BCNF is always possible(d) Any relation with two attributes is in BCNFThe question was asked during a job interview.I want to ask this question from Materialized Views in chapter Query Processing Techniques of Database Management

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The CORRECT answer is (C) Lossless, dependency-preserving decomposition into BCNF is ALWAYS possible

For explanation: ACHIEVING Lossless and dependency-preserving decomposition property into BCNF is difficult.



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