Contrast with functional dependency. The Goal Is Eliminate Transitive Dependencies When designing a database, "third normal form" is achieved by eliminating transitive dependencies in each table.

Transitive dependencies are software components that your software relies on indirectly—the code used by the packages you directly integrate into your software.

Now for BCNF, we have a slightly different circumstance. This is because here, an attribute within a composite candidate key has a functional dependency on a non-key attribute. Again, since the ...