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What are the Advantages and disadvantages of relational database model?

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Some of the advantages of relational databases include the ability to link information about a particular person who is in several databases together by simple links. One disadvantage is that once the database is created it is not changed easily so any database forming as part of a relational database must be very carefully planed before anything else can be done

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