As you can see, a circular reference exists when the connections
among the tables
simulate a circle and we have two routes to get from any given point to another. For example, we can get from the Main Data table to the Calendar table either directly, through the YearMonth route, or by going first to the Promotions table and then moving to the Calendar table. This is an issue that needs to be addressed, and one that can create severe data inconsistency problems, performance degradation, and even crashes.