December 2012
Intermediate to advanced
888 pages
48h 24m
English
An RDBMS stores data in tables, which you can visualize as spreadsheets. Each column in the table is a field; for example, a column might contain a name or an address. Each row in the table is an individual record. The table itself has a name you use to refer to that table when you want to get data out of it or put data into it. Figure 27.1 shows an example of a simple relational database that stores name and address information.
Figure 27.1. In this visualization of how an RDBMS stores data, the database stores four records (rows) that include name and address information, divided into seven fields (columns) of ...
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