Data is very important to any business. Data gives you an answer whether the business is going to rise or fall. Data is the answers to the questions like what the attendance for the day is or what the employee satisfaction level is or what issues we have in the production for a particular period or what is revenue for a particular period in business. And, keeping these data in a systematic way in a computer is known as database so that it is easily available to every authorized user in this distributed environment. Database is a place where company stores important information related to its business. Database also helps companies to add, delete, share, and update records as and when required in a very less time which helps businesses to become more efficient and effective. (Gillenson, Ponniah, Kriegel, Trukhnov, Taylor, Powell, and Miller, 2007).
What is meant by the term “data accuracy”?
Data accuracy is proximity of the observed conclusions to the values that are authentic. Data accuracy is one of the basic aspects of data quality. If we have a wrong data, the other aspects hardly matters. Accuracy tells whether or not the data accurately enters the represented business objects. In order to have an accurate data, the value must be true and it must be consistently represented in correspondence to the others of same value. (Gillenson, Ponniah, Kriegel, Trukhnov, Taylor, Powell, and Miller, 2007). What are some of the challenges of keeping information in a database accurate? Why are some databases much easier to keep accurate than others?
In many databases, the accuracy of database has a trickledown effect. Database is barely available to the common user. Essentially nevertheless, is that the database is accessible through a particular software which tells the information actually means. Inaccurate database causes inaccuracies in the reporting and causes software issues too. The reason the
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