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data can contain such mistakes as spelling or punctuation errors, incorrect data associated with a field, incomplete or outdated data, or even data that has been duplicated in the database.

See also

References

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