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326Chapter 14Storing the Data14.11WHAT YOU STILL DON’T KNOWThis is another chapter that represents a mere gloss of its topic. Visit your localbook megamart and just count the number of books on Oracle, MySQL, andPostgreSQL. Database servers and relational database design are very largetopics indeed. We have hardly scratched the surface. Our goal here has beenmerely to give you enough to get started. If you plan to use one of these products,definitely take the time to download and read the official product documentation(for both MySQL and PostgreSQL it is actually quite good), andthen take your time looking for after-market books that seem to meetyour needs.14.12RESOURCESBy no means have we read all the titles available on this topic, but we have readand can recommend:• Leon Atkinson, Core MySQL, ISBN 0-13-066190-2.• Paul DuBois, MySQL, ISBN 0-7357-0921-1.• Korry Douglas and Susan Douglas, PostgreSQL, ISBN 0-7357-1257-3.14.13EXERCISESIs this database fully normalized? 13 If not, what would need to be done tonormalize it? What reasons might exist for not fully normalizing a database?13. “Normalization” is a process of eliminating database redundancy and of theoreticaloptimization of the data model. A decent introduction to the concepts may be found athttp://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/intro-to-normalization.html.