> I think most of the motivation for normal forms is to avoid 'update anomalies', which is essentially, don't represent the same information in two places This

> I think most of the motivation for normal forms is to avoid 'update anomalies', which is essentially, don't represent the same information in two places This is true for the second and higher normal forms, but not for first normal form. First normal form is about eliminating nested tables, not about eliminating redundant data.