Multi Value Dependency, BCNF, 4NF

Phone is directly related to a person (name), and not an address, e.g. my cell phone doesn't *really* have an address related to it.

So, given a table Name was a table, then

Hi Jim,

Dirinkers  <--- Table name with 3 fields
========================
name
phone
address

The discussion, as I understand it, to see if this table could be further reduced (broken down to two tables) and why. So, name and phone (if it is cell phone) is candidate key. The combination of  name-cell phone - and address possibly is another candidate key if all names are living alone but we never know. As the result

name --> cell -phone have functional dependency (FD) but
name --> address have not and definately
name - -> beer type have not FD because Mike --> Coors   cannot be unique because we can easily have Robert --> Coors.

Now, lets forget the content of this post and shift to the original question:

Question: Why name --> --> phone is a multi valued Dependent?

The purpose of this post was just to not assume name, phone, address are each separate tables.

Thanks,

Mike

@Jim:
>> Address could be in the Name table if you don't care about history, or if a name can have multiple addresses. <<

I believe you meant to say "or if name can have only a single address".  If a name can multiple addresses, then addresses need to be in a separate table, of course.


To me:
(name, phone, address) [beers]
is not even a valid setup of 4nf issues, as the table is not yet in 3nf.  

I believe the only true candidate key here is "name", since phone numbers change all the time.

Thus, phone and address are both non-key attributes, and, if so, we're dealing with potential 3nf issues, not 4nf issues.

I personally don't see any true transitive dependencies among phone, address and beers.

HI Scott,

Could you possibly, in a table like:

Table1
===========================
field1          field2                field3
---------         -----------            -------------
x                    x                          x

give me an examples for FD and MVD?

Basically, I want to understand FD and MVD.

Also, please add a comment to: https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/28584856/3rd-Normal-Form.html?anchorAnswerId=40512198#a40512198

Thanks,

Mike

Sorry, I need to come back to this.  I've had only about 2 hours' sleep in the last two days so now is the time for me to tackling normalization :-).  Even what I have above is not really clear or direct.