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Database Modeling for Structured Data

In this chapter, we will discuss the properties, types, use cases, and key considerations of structured data, data modeling best practices, and SQL basics, and we will look at some hands-on data modeling and query experiments.

In this chapter, we’ll cover the following topics:

  • Structured data
  • RDBMS for structured data
  • Considerations for your RDBMS
  • Structured query language

Structured data

Structured data is data that has a well-defined structure, type, and format organized and standardized in a repository called a database for storage, retrieval, and processing. Structured Query Language (SQL) is used for interacting with this data. This means that structured data has a fixed set of attributes and is ...

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