What Problems Are Caused By Data Redundancy?
Data redundancy is a data organization issue that allows the unnecessary duplication of data within your Microsoft Access database. A change or modification, to redundant data, requires that you make changes to multiple fields of a database. While this is the expected behaviour for flat file database designs and spreadsheets, it defeats the purpose of relational database designs. The data relationships, inherent in a relational database, should allow you to maintain a single data field, at one location, and make the database’s relational model responsible to port any changes, to that data field, across the database. Redundant data wastes valuable space and creates troubling database maintenance problems.
