Five Minute Briefing - MultiValue
November 19, 2025
A comprehensive monthly publication filled with news and insight serving the MultiValue database community.
News Flashes
MultiValue World is announcing its latest premier event, MultiValue World: The Future Unleashed, a global conference bringing together leaders, developers, and innovators in MultiValue database technology. The event will take place April 27-30, 2026, at the Saddlebrook Resort & Spa in Wesley Chapel, Florida.
Rocket Software is introducing the next phase of the Rocket Business Connect (RBC) modernization journey. Building on last year's move to the cloud, Rocket Software is rolling out two updates designed to simplify access and strengthen security—without disrupting work.
Zumasys is offering a webinar series, From Chaos to Clarity, aimed at helping manufacturers support their operations with Rover AI. Part 3 of the series, Agents at Work: Automating Support & Operations with Rover AI, debuts on December 4, at 1 pm CT. This session will cover how AI agents can help teams automate work so they can focus on more intense tasks that involve judgment, service, relationships, and solving real problems.
Think About It
Fourth and fifth normal forms send us down a pretty, yellow brick road leaving behind functional dependencies to gather up join dependencies and their special child, multi-valued dependencies. Explanations for these extra dependencies can be conflicting, which makes them perfectly at home in Wonderland with Alice. We'll try and explain them a little here, but be prepared, because others will claim this is wrong.