March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
992 pages
30h 7m
English
This chapter discusses a fundamental concept in relational databases: tables. Tables are the database objects that store the data in the database. Thoroughly understanding the concepts in this chapter is a requirement for designing and maintaining an effective database. We first discuss table structure fundamentals, including data types, keys, and constraints. Next, we cover several specialized table types, such as temporal tables and graph tables. Then, we examine the specialized nature of storing binary large objects (BLOBs) in relational tables. Your understanding of table design would not be ...
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