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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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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. |
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7/16/2003
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A database can contain more than one table, each with a
unique name. These tables can be related or independent from one
another.
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