Dirty data

Dirty data is inaccurate, incomplete or erroneous data, especially in a computer system or database.[1]

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data can contain such mistakes as spelling or punctuation errors, incorrect data associated with a field, incomplete or outdated data, or even data that has been duplicated in the database.

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References

  1. ↑ Margaret Chu (2004), "What Are Dirty Data?", Blissful Data, p. 71 et seq., ISBN 9780814407806