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Redundancy of data is many times benificial, Justify the statement.

  
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January 29, 2008 05:48:33   #1  
patilpravin_1981 Member Since: December 2007   Contribution: 29    

RE: Redundancy of data is many times benificial, Justify the statement.
A person can have same name in database therfore it is difficult to identify the records thats why DBMS provide data integrity to enter valid data & unique data enter into database. which is use to avoid data redudancey in database.
 
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August 25, 2008 09:22:21   #2  
artbria Member Since: August 2008   Contribution: 2    

RE: Redundancy of data is many times benificial, Justify the statement.

A table is said to be redundant (that is data is repeated) if it is in a denormalized format. For ex we have a table which displays item item no item cost etc. which is denormalized. To avoid redundancy we normalize it and add some more fields like sub-item sub item no sub item cost etc.

Now if we write a query to retrive data from this normalized table(which dont have redundant data) it will take take a long time for the query to get executed as the no of fields increase.

hence redundancy of data is benifical that is query processing time will be minimal.


 
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