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Is canonical cover and minimal cover the same thing?
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From Korth,

following is an example of Canonical cover, though  nowhere they mentioned about minimal cover. Here we can notice that, there are multiple attributes at RHS to satisfy above mentioned 2nd condition

From Navathe, It has been shown that a FD can't have multiple attributes at RHS

So, this is the only difference!
 

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The only difference is that in canonical cover,the LHS should be unique.

eg.Minimal cover is A->B ,A-C

but Cannonical cover has to be A->BC.

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