An indirect relationship between data elements in a database. For example, social security number is a transitive dependency of date-of-birth (SSN->DOB), because it is dependent on name (SSN->NAME), ...

Everyone knows and loves the first three normal forms. We go through the process of normalization to remove redundancies in our data structures. But the redundancies we remove have nothing to do with ...

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This week, Google launched a free API service that provides software developers with dependency data and security-related information on over 5 million software components across different programming ...