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A Tiny Complaint
At some point this summer, I blacked out. When I woke up, I discovered that I had enrolled myself for a large number of university classes. Nothing apparently makes me happier than learning something new, or having so much to do that I have not a second of spare time left for frivolous things like daily hygiene. A week into classes, I am already behind and wondering who my alien, demon, other self is and why she loves to torture me so!
For your amusement, and because I seem to be meant to serve as a warning and example to others, I am sharing a paragraph from one of my textbooks. It is from the introductory chapter and captures so beautiful why Technical Writers are important!!
Normalization of tables. Functional dependencies (FDs) are derived from the conceptual data model diagram and the semantics of data relationships in the requirements analysis. They represent the dependencies among data elements that are unique identifiers (keys) of entities. Additional FDs that represent the dependencies among key and nonkey attributes within entities can be derived from the requirements specification. Candidate relational tables associated with all derived FDs are normalized (i.e. modified by decomposing or splitting tables into smaller tables) using standard techniques. Finally, redundancies in the data in normalized candidate tables are analyzed further for possible elimination, with the constraint that data integrity must be preserved.
Uh…what? I have determined that I will never understand what that paragraph means. I have tried every technique, dissecting it into smaller phrases, substituting words, re-reading the preceding pages…nothing sheds light. Fragments make sense, but nothing can be done with the paragraph as a whole.
It is going to be a long semester…