A busy professional asks a question regarding his co-working relationships. How to give your friends and co-workers advice without making them mad. When is it ok to give advice? Can it ever be unsolicited? What should you do if a co-worker thinks you’re in their business too much? The risk of giving advice to friends and co-workers is that they...

Third (3rd) Normal Form (3NF) For a table or relation to be in Third (3rd) Normal Form, it should be in Second (2nd) Normal form as well as the subsequent should be fulfills: · Certainly no non main column or attribute is transitively dependent on prime key (PK) attribute or column. · For any important functional dependency, A → B,...

A busy professional asks a question regarding his career. How to recover from a bad interview? Not every interview goes as planned. How can a candidate recover from a bad interview? What steps can they take to improve their standing with the hiring manager? If they blew their shot at that job, what can they do to ensure that they...

Functional Dependency The functional dependency (FD) is a group of constrictions among two (2) columns or attributes in a table or relation. Functional dependency states that when two (2) rows or tuples is having identical data values for attributes or columns C1, C2,…, Cn, then those two (2) rows or tuples should have to have identical data values for attributes...

When do you need a new career vs. just a new job? When you’re burned out in your current job, how do you know if it’s time for a new career vs. just a new job? What questions should you ask yourself? What criteria should you be thinking about? This is a question that everyone should ask – even before...

A busy professional asks a question regarding employer/employee relationships. How can I improve my closing ratio in a very competitive market? We are losing too many potential jobs in the very competitive exterior home improvement field. How can I improve my closing ratio? This question is as common as it is complicated. It also isn’t isolated to exterior home improvement...