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. 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