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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
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Word field, and the word
row is synonymous with the word record. A database can contain
more than one table, each with a unique name. These tables can
be related or independent from one another. 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 |
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