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I have a table:
Person with columns:
pID(PK)
FName
LName
plID(FK)
Another table Place with:
plID(PK)
plCity
plState
plZip
Is it better to just have Person made like:
pID(PK)
FName
LName
City
State
Zip
For instance:
John Doe New York, NY 00000
Jane Doe New York, NY 00000
Jim Doe New York, NY 00000
You should normalize a database to eliminate data redundancy. In your case, it is very likely that you’ll have a lot of people from the same place, which would cause data redundancy.
Therefore the answer is yes. You should absolutely normalize your database. You could possibly just include the zip code in the
Persontable and let that be a foreign key inPersonand primary key inPlace.