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Dirty Data

Published July 22, 2003 12:00 am

In reference to databases, data that contain errors. Dirty data can contain such mistakes as spelling or punctuation, incorrect data associated with a field, incomplete or outdated data or even data that is duplicated in the database.

Also see data integrity.

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