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.