A Constructive Definition Of Third Normal Form

Summary: Constructive definition of third normal form via data types and selectors from programming languages; yields an abstract syntax of relations. Compares with standard normalisation and studies completeness, enabling a formal data-definition approach for relational models. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2099
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1976
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,567 | 0.06%
DOI: 10.1145/509383.509398

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Authors

1. G C H Sharman (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{sharman_sigmod76,
        title = {{A CONSTRUCTIVE DEFINITION OF THIRD NORMAL FORM}},
        author = {Sharman, G C H},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '76},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/509383.509398},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/509383.509398},
        year = {1976}
}

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14,560	Update-By-Dialogue: An Interactive Approach To Database Modification	1977	SIGMOD	-

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