Question

State true or false: A functional dependency must first satisfy the second normal form to satisfy the third normal form.

(a) True

(b) False

The question was asked by my school principal while I was bunking the class.

I'd like to ask this question from Decomposition Using Functional Dependencies topic in chapter Relational Database Design of RDBMS

Answer 1

Right option is (a) True

For explanation I would say: A functional dependency must first satisfy the second normal form to satisfy the third normal form. The second normal form must in turn satisfy first normal form.