A direct relationship between data elements in a relational database. Functional dependency (FD) states that one data element is dependent on another. For example, social security number (SSN), ...
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An indirect relationship between data elements in a database. For example, social security number is a transitive dependency of date-of-birth (SSN->DOB), because it is dependent on name (SSN->NAME), ...