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Phoenix Web Development
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Phoenix Web Development

by Brandon Richey
April 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
406 pages
9h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding the role of schemas

The first thing to start understanding is where and how schemas define the shape of the data in your database. Schemas help describe what tables your application uses behind the scenes and what fields exist to Ecto; the Schemas themselves do not define the overall structure to the database itself.

This helps describe the columns and define what types each of the columns are (for example, a string, an integer, or a reference to another table). The important thing to note about schemas in Ecto is what they are intended to do: separate the ideas of data from operations. By keeping our schemas very specific to understanding, describing, and translating the data, we can keep our applications largely side-effect-free ...

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