Employee Skills Objectives;
Fields
EmployeeID (PK part1)
Skill (PK Part2)
Objective (PK Part3)
Skillachieveddate
Objectiveachieveddate
This violates the 4th normal form because skill and objective are both multivalued (that is any employee may have mroe than one skill and more than one objective) and these two fields are not dependant on each other (The skills and objective vary independantly from each other). Some sample data cna show you the problems associated with this NF.Employee Skill Objective Smith Public Speaking Masters Degree Smith Accounting Masters Degree Smith Public Speaking More Money Smith Accounting More MoneyNow if smith decides he wants prestige, how many records do you need to add to this table?
Employee Skill Fields EmployeeID Skill DateAchieved Employee Objectives Fields EmployeeID Objective DateAchievedIn our above question there would only be one record added here to the Employee-Objective table.