Critical Thinking Questions Case 10-2 in Your Database Course, Your

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Critical Thinking Questions Case 10-2 In your database course, your instructor has given you a small database that has a lot of invalid data, issuing the challenge to you that you work to apply validation rules to the data and determine what checks need to be applied in order to restore integrity to the data. A quick scan of the data in the First Name field in the database yields the numbers 3 and 7 and an asterisk. What kind of check should you run on this field?

• A) completeness check
• B) consistency check
• C) alphabetic check
• D) check digit

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Red Circle

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