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A table has columns: order_id (PK), customer_id, customer_name, product_id, product_name, quantity. Which normal form violation does this represent?

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A1NF violation — non-atomic values
B2NF violation — customer_name depends only on customer_id, not on the full primary key
C3NF violation — quantity depends on order_id transitively
DBCNF violation — order_id is not a candidate key

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