One of the arguments in favor of using normalization as a refinement tool instead of an initial design tool is that by first developing an ERD,much of the normalization is done informally and therefore is not as tedious a process as recording all the functional dependencies.

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Developing an ERD involves identifying the entities, attributes, and relationships in a system, which can lead to the informal identification of functional dependencies. This makes the normalization process less tedious when refining the design, rather than starting from scratch.

One of the Arguments in Favor of Using Normalization as a Refinement