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# Entity Integrity
**Entity integrity** is the gurantee provided by the database of a 1:1 correspondence between real-world entities and their digital representations.
As such, it is a prerequite for all other aspects of data integrity.

As databases must represent an accurate mapping between real-world entities and their digital representations for accurately representing data and its transformations, the first essential aspect of data integrity is *entity integrity*.

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**Entity integrity** is the gurantee of a 1:1 correspondence between real-world entities and their digital representations.
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For entity integrity, each real-world entity must be represented by exactly one unique record in the database; conversely, each record must correspond to a single, distinct real-world entity.

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