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What is data normalization?

What is data normalization?

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What is data normalization?

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Hello guys, welcome back. In this tutorial we are going to talk about data normalization and why it is important. You have seen that we bought the data through the help of data stream and it created a DLO and then that DLO was mapped to multiple DMOs. This process of mapping is what is called as normalization and what is the purpose of the normalization we will see it in a minute. So data normalization is a crucial concept in database design and and it is particularly relevant in Data Cloud when mapping data from various sources to the standardized data model. What we are doing here is we are bringing data from multiple sources. Right now, we brought the data from Salesforce org. Next, we are going to pull the data from Amazon S3. Now, we will have some contacts coming in from Amazon S3, some contacts are coming in from the Salesforce org, and we are going to put them in one DLO, which is the contact, and then we are going to map it to these DMOs. In simple terms, data normalization…

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