The plain-English version
Organizing relational data to reduce avoidable duplication and inconsistent updates.
Why it matters
It helps a change to one fact have one clear place to be made.
Let’s make it click
Store a customer's address in the customer record rather than copying its current value into every editable order.
Vibe Bro’s heads-up
Historical snapshots may be intentional; decide whether an order needs the original shipping address or the customer's latest address.
The docs behind it
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Editorial review · October 28, 2026
Supported: Normalization reduces update anomalies while correctly allowing historical order-address snapshots.