Definition: A relation is said to be in First Normal Form (1NF) if and only if each attribute of the relation is atomic. More simply, to be in 1NF, each column must contain only a single value and each row must contain the same columns.
Definition: A relation is said to be in First Normal Form (1NF) if and only if each attribute of the relation is atomic. More simply, to be in 1NF, each column must contain only a single value and each row must contain the same columns.