The document discusses data redundancy and update anomalies in relational database design. It presents three relations - Staff, Branch, and Staffbranch - to illustrate these concepts. The Staffbranch relation contains redundant data like branch addresses repeated for each staff member. This can cause problems like insertion, deletion, and modification anomalies. Normalizing the data by splitting it into separate relations, like having separate Staff and Branch relations joined by a foreign key, helps avoid these issues.