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Question
List few disadvantages of the file processing system.
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Solution
- Data Duplication– Same data is used by multi¬ple resources for processing, thus created multiple copies of the same data wasting the spaces.
- High Maintenance– Access control and verify- ing data consistency needs high maintenance cost.
- Security– Less security provided to the data. So database systems became popular to overcome the above limitations of file system.
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