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Preface

From “big data” data sets in an enterprise data center to hand-scribbled shopping lists, data is everywhere. Corporations collect as much of it as they can and analyze it to formulate new business strategies. Scientists study data looking for answers that can save lives, improve our environment, and explain our place in the universe. Even the average person maintains a fair amount of data, from ledgers detailing one’s spending habits to phone numbers in a cellphone’s address book. Storing and organizing all of this this data has become so easy that we often take for granted many of the database concepts and algorithms that make these things possible.

This book is an introduction to the basic concepts of working with a Relational Database ...