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Consider the following relation: BOOK(Book_name,Author,Edition,Year) with the data: Book_name Author Edition Year DBMS Navathe 3 2000 DBMS Elmasri 3 2000 DBMS Elmasri 4 2004 DBMS

Consider the following relation:

BOOK(Book_name,Author,Edition,Year) with the data:

Book_name

Author

Edition

Year

DBMS

Navathe

3

2000

DBMS

Elmasri

3

2000

DBMS

Elmasri

4

2004

DBMS

Navathe

4

2004

i) Based on the common sense understanding of the above data, what are the possible candidate keys of this relation?

ii) Does the above have one or more functional dependencies?(Do not list FDs by applying derivation rules) If so, what are they? Show how you will remove dependencies by decomposition.

iii) Does the relation have a Multivalued Dependency? If so? What is it?

Check whether the given relation is in 4NF or not.

iv) What will be final decomposition look like? (12M)

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