The building block of a database is the record. A record is a collection
of related data treated as a single entity. For example, a hockey
trading card could be called a record: it brings together the name,
photograph, team, and statistics of one player.
Using database terms, each of these related pieces of information is
called a field: each hockey card “record” has a name field, a photograph
field, a team field, and various statistic fields.
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A collection of records that share the same fields is called a table
because this kind of information can easily be presented in table
format: each column represents a field and each row represents a record.
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