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    Dirty Data

    Last Updated May 24, 2021 1:40 pm
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    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Dirty data can contain such mistakes as spelling or punctuation, incorrect data associated with a field, incomplete or outdated data or even data that is duplicated in the database.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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