Are these tables respect the 3NF Database Normalization?
- by penas
AUTHOR table
Author_ID, PK
First_Name
Last_Name
TITLES table
TITLE_ID, PK
NAME
Author_ID, FK
DOMAIN table
DOMAIN_ID, PK
NAME
TITLE_ID, FK
READERS table
READER_ID, PK
First_Name
Last_Name
ADDRESS
CITY_ID, FK
PHONE
CITY table
CITY_ID, PK
NAME
BORROWING table
BORROWING_ID,pk
READER_ID, fk
TITLE_ID, fk
DATE
HISTORY table
READER_ID
TITLE_ID
DATE_OF_BORROWING
DATE_OF_RETURNING
Are these tables respect the 3NF Database Normalization?
What if 2 authors work together for the same title?
The column Addresss should have it's own table?
When a reader borrows a book, I make an entry in BORROWING table. After he returns the book, I delete that entry and I make another one entry in HISTORY table. Is this a good idea? Do I brake any rule? Should I have instead one single BORROWING table with a DATE_OF_RETURNING column?