In this chapter, we begin the process of normalization by first transferring the data from the source (for example, a standard data entry form) into table format with rows and columns. In this format, the table is in Unnormalized Form and is referred to as an unnor- malized table. To transform the unnormalized table to First Normal Form we identify and remove repeating groups within the table. A repeating group is an attribute, or group of attributes, within a table that occurs with multiple values for a single occurrence of the nominated key attribute(s) for that table. Note that in this context, the term ‘key’ refers to the attribute(s) that uniquely identify each row within the unnormalized table. There are two common approaches to removing repeating groups from unnormalized tables: