How do you normalize one-to-one-or-the-other relationships?

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Published on 2010-03-23T13:51:17Z Indexed on 2010/03/23 14:13 UTC
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I'm storing data on baseball statistics and would like to do so with three tables: players, battingStats, and pitchingStats. For the purpose of the question, each player will have batting stats or pitching stats, but not both.

How would I normalize such a relationship in 3NF?

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