Video: Data Normalization

In this lesson, Nick Palazzolo, CPA, demystifies the concept of data normalization, which is critical for structuring databases efficiently. Nick explores how organizing data to minimize redundancy enhances the integrity and functionality of the database, making it more streamlined for queries and maintenance. Through practical examples, he illustrates how separating data into distinct tables and defining logical relationships can simplify modifications and improve database management. By dividing concepts into different levels of normalization, from basic to more complex forms like the third normal form, Nick ensures a clear understanding of how each step helps to avoid duplication and maintain data consistency. This thorough exploration provides crucial insights for effective relational database design.

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Instructor: Nick Palazzolo

Nick Palazzolo is head instructor of ExamPrep.ai CPA Review. Nick's teaching style is engaging & upbeat, combining practical Big 4 tax & assurance expertise with years of 1-on-1 coaching. His lessons are concise and emphasize what you need to know to pass. Whether you're a recent grad or working full-time, we’re confident you can conquer your CPA exams with Nick’s review.

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Data normalization, right? What is this? What is this? It's a topic. It's a term. This refers to the process of organizing data in a database to reduce redundancy and improve the data's integrity. This process, it involves structuring a database in a way that minimizes duplication of information across tables. It ensures data dependencies are logical, and it simplifies the schema to make the database more efficient for querying and maintenance. So again, searching, just in your mind, querying is another term for searching. So there we go. Normalization typically involves dividing large tables into smaller related tables and defining relationships between them. The aim is to isolate data so that additions, deletions, and modifications of a field can be made to just one table and then propagated through the rest of the database via defined relationships. Let me give you a great example. So in a software that I would implement to clients, we would have multiple classes of data. So you'd have, let's say, address. Let's say you'd have, you know, I'm just going to say a bunch of things, right? Address, name, and let's just say social security number. And you'd have these all in separate, let's call them databases or separate charts, separate Excel sheets, however you want to think about it. And then you have another, let's say, chart, database, Excel, you know, just to kind of cater to whatever, however you visualize it best, which maps and links them all together. So essentially what this process is talking about is keeping everything separate. So if we want to say that, you know, here's another database of all of our GL accounts, and here's a list of our legal entities, maybe here in this mapping, in this mapping category, this mapping class, we are

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