QUESTION 2
Hillar Furniture Enterprise is a furniture store owned by Dr. Hillar Addo of AIT. The materials manager of this company maintains a list of suppliers for each of the materials items purchased by the company from outside vendors. The following table shows the essential data required for this application.
Hillar Furniture Company Purchasing Data is shown below:
Attribute Name Sample Value
Material_ID 3792
Material_ Name Hinges 3” locking
Unit_of_Measure Each
Standard_Cost GHC 5.00
Vendor_ID V300
Vendor_name Apex Hardware
Unit_price GHC 4.75
Terms_Code 1
Terms COD
a) Using the dependency diagram, identify the functional dependencies for this data. You may assume the following:
i. Each material has one or more suppliers. Each supplier may have supply
one or more items or may not supply many items.
ii. The unit price for a material may vary from one vendor to another
b) Convert your data into a set of 3NF relations, identifying all the primary and foreign keys
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