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Although normal forms as such aren't the whole of design theory, it's undeniable that they're a very large
part of that theory, and they form the principal topic of Parts II and III of this topic. The present part takes
the story as far as Boyce/Codd normal form (BCNF), which is “the” normal form with respect to functional
dependencies (FDs).
