As you have read in this unit$$s readings, data redundancy is one of the main anomalies that we should avoid while designing a relational database. Can you explain, through an example from databases you use daily, how data redundancy impacts the database$$s consistency? What are the steps that we should take to mitigate database anomalies? What is the role of metadata in this context?

In response to your peers: In the context of this week$$s DB$,$ how does indexing in a relational database come into play? What is its impact on searching a database?