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Understanding the Diagnostic Messages and Suggestions

To help you understand the theory behind the messages, we’ll take a behind-the-scenes look at how these analytical decisions were reached.

To understand the diagnostic messages and suggestions

  1. Click the blue information icon that precedes a diagnostic message to display the Teach Me button.
  2. In this example, we’re clicking on the Inconsistent Definition diagnostic that appeared in the Column Diagnostics:

  3. Click Teach Me under the Indexes and Constraints diagnostic for Incorrectly Defined Foreign Keys.

  4. Click Teach Me under the Normalization diagnostic for the Third Normal Form for the following information:

  5. Click Teach Me under the Relationships diagnostic for Nonenforceable Relationships, to learn the rules that govern “implied” relationships: