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While the book covers normalization up to BCNF and 4NF, it does not delve into dependency preservation, lossless-join decomposition algorithms, or multi-valued dependency proofs. Students aiming for graduate studies or competitive exams like GATE (Computer Science) will find Chopra insufficient. In the digital age, data is the new