Chapter 4
Building and Maintaining a Simple Database Structure
In This Chapter
Using RAD to build, change, and remove a database table
Using SQL to build, change, and remove a database table
Migrating your database to another DBMS
Computer history changes so fast that sometimes the rapid turnover of technological generations can be confusing. High-level (so-called third-generation) languages such as FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, Pascal, and C were the first languages used to build and change large databases. Later languages included some specifically designed for use with databases — such as dBASE, Paradox, and R:BASE. (So were these third-and-a-half-generation languages? Never mind.) The next step in this progression was the emergence of development environments such as Access, PowerBuilder, and C++ Builder, the so-called fourth-generation languages (4GLs). Now things have moved beyond the numbered generations to rapid application development (RAD) tools and integrated development environments (IDEs) such as Eclipse and Visual Studio .NET, which can be used with any of a number of languages (such as C, C++, C#, Python, Java, Visual Basic, or PHP). You use them to assemble application ...
Get SQL For Dummies, 8th Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
