Which of the following is an appropriate purpose of normalizing data in a relational
database?
a) To guarantee data compatibility so that data can be shared between different types of
computers
b) To prevent the occurrence of redundancy or inconsistency of data when data is
updated
c) To identify characters that are not permitted to be sent when a database is used via a
network
d) To handle data storage areas distributed over multiple media as a single contiguous
storage area