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Sunrise Distributors recently completed a major data conversion project. Many of its computer based files had become unreliable, difficult to maintain, and too inflexible to be used to fulfill many end-user reporting and inquiry requests. A RDBMS seemed to be the obvious solution. Two systems analysts were primarily responsible for the conversion project. The systems analysts had decided to simply implement each of the computer-based files as a separate table in their relational database. Once the conversion was completed, the same problems that existed with the file-based system reappeared in the database system. Reports contained inaccurate data, report and inquiry requests could not easily be obtained, and data maintenance was still difficult. What database design goals did the system analysts violate?

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