The defining characteristic of BCNF is that a table is in BCNF if ________.
A)all rows are unique
B)all columns are consistent
C)the primary key is a candidate key
D)all determinants are candidate keys

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The defining characteristic of Boyce-Codd Normal Form (BCNF) is that for every one of its non-trivial functional dependencies, X → Y, X is a superkey. This essentially means that all determinants in the relation must be candidate keys.

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