C H A P T E R 6
Databases
In many cases, a web application is nothing more than a front end for a database (DB). In fact, what makes web pages dynamic is precisely the fact that there is a significant amount of data behind them.
A database consists of organized data—that is, the data itself and a schema that provides data structures. Nowadays, most databases are organized in tables. You can define the table characteristics independently of the actual data you’re going to store into it. This is another instance of the separation of formatting and content, which you’ve already encountered in Chapter 3, when we discussed web applications.
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