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Per the Methodist notes' guidance, when should designers stop at 3NF rather than pushing all the way to BCNF?

Awhen the relation has only a single candidate key
Bwhen the engine is MySQL rather than PostgreSQL
Cwhen pushing to BCNF would lose dependency preservation
Dwhen the relation has more than ten attributes
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. when pushing to BCNF would lose dependency preservation
BCNF is strictly stronger than 3NF, but enforcing BCNF can require a decomposition that loses the ability to enforce some original FDs on the resulting tables (loses dependency preservation). 3NF always preserves dependencies. The choice trades stricter normal form for keeping constraints enforceable.
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