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8/30/2003, Saturday
For example, a hockey trading card could be called a
record: it brings together the name, photograph, team, and
statistics of one player.
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Your news title
8/30/2003, Saturday
For example, a hockey trading card could be called a
record: it brings together the name, photograph, team, and
statistics of one player.
read me |
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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.
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. In fact, the word column is synonymous with
the word field, and the word row is synonymous with the word
record.
A database can contain more than one table, each with a unique
name. These tables can be related or independent from one
another.
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