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Checks fields to ensure data in these fields corresponds, e.g., If Title = "Mr.", then Gender = "M".

There are also many different kinds of data that you can use to Validate your data, this includes Typical Data; data that is usaully entered into a system this is to check that normal information can be entered into the system. Then there is Extreme data, this is data that is used only in certain rare occasions for instance: For a place to input say a birth date extreme data would be 29/02/1910. 29th of february being a leap year date and 1910 being a very old person. This kind of data should be acceptable without any wrong things coming up. Then the final type is Invalid Data, which is obviously is of its name. Its data that should not be accepted into the system, for instance in a Telephone Number, inputting symbols and letters should then be stopped by an error message or something of equivalence

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