Data Quality: The Accuracy Dimension (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems)

field overloading, 152

first-normal form, 181

fixed source systems, 212

foreign keys, 180-181

defined, 180

in dependent tables, 180

uses, 180-181

See also keys

free-form text fields, 196

frequency distributions, 250-251

functional dependencies, 174-176

candidate, determining, 193-196

classifying, 198-199

defined, 174

denormalized, 182

discovering, 191, 196-197

finding, 192, 193-199

illustrated, 175

LHS of, 174

marking, 197

as meta definition of structure, 176

primary key, 176, 199

speculation, 193-194

testing, 197-198

See also structure analysis