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7. Working with Tables

Mark Conway Munro1  
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Lewisburg, PA, USA
 
A table is the fundamental unit of a database’s structural schema which forms a digital representative of some type of entity being modeled. Tables create a digital space and define a set of fields for storing data. This chapter explores the following topics:
  • Introducing object modeling

  • Introducing the Manage Database window (Tables)

  • Planning table names

  • Managing tables

  • Adding tables to the example database

Introducing Object Modeling

An object model or data model is an abstraction that defines elements of data for database entries, describing how they relate both to each other and to ...

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