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7/2/2003
Name field, a photograph field, a team field, and various
statistic fields.
7/2/2003
Name field, a photograph field, a team field, and various
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The building block of a database
is the record. A record is a collection of related data treated
as a single entity. For example, a hockey trading card could
be called a record: it brings together the name, photograph,
team, and statistics of one player. Using database terms, each
of these related pieces of information is called a field: each
hockey card “record” has a name field, a photograph
field, a team field, and various statistic fields.
A collection of records that share the same fields is
called a table because this kind of information can easily be
presented in table format: each column represents a field and
each row represents a record. In fact, the word column is
synonymous with the word field, and the word row is synonymous
with the word record.
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