April 2022
Beginner to intermediate
368 pages
9h 41m
English
Content preview from CompTIA Data+ Study Guide
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Chapter 3Databases and Data Acquisition
In Chapter 2, “Understanding Data,” you learned how organizations rely on structured and unstructured data to meet their business needs. The vast majority of transactional systems generate structured data, and we need technology that will help us store all of that data. Databases are the foundational technology that allows us to keep our data organized and easy to retrieve when we need it.