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When you decompose a table into smaller tables, the two properties you must preserve are

Alossy compression and dependency tracking
Blossless-join and dependency preservation
Cschema constancy and foreign-key independence
Dredundancy minimisation and normal-form maximisation
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. lossless-join and dependency preservation
A safe decomposition must let you rejoin the pieces to reconstruct the original (lossless-join) AND let you enforce the original constraints from constraints on the pieces (dependency preservation). The Methodist notes list these as the two important decomposition properties.
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