What is a Database?

**sherlyk** · 12-29-2010, 05:50 AM

A database is a structure that comes in two flavors: a flat database and a relational database. A relational database is much more oriented to the human mind and is often preferred over the gabble-de-gook flat database that are just stored on hard drives like a text file. MySQL is a relational database.

In a relational structured database there are tables that store data. The columns define which kinds of information will be stored in the table. An individual column must be created for each type of data you wish to store (i.e. Age, Weight, Height).

On the other hand, a row contains the actual values for these specified columns. Each row will have 1 value for each and every column. For example a table with columns (Name, Age, Weight-lbs) could have a row with the values (Bob, 65, 165). If all this relational database talk is too confusing, don't despair. We will talk about and show a few examples in the coming lessons.

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**hades** · 02-19-2011, 09:33 PM

nice post man it helped me a lot ^ ^
well now I understand

**ipetrov** · 03-27-2011, 11:07 AM

Beside MySQL there are other database systems like SQL Server, DB2 ...

**carolynm** · 05-28-2011, 12:13 PM

Database is an organized collection of related information. That means a shelf in a library qualifies as a database.It is definitely important for an organization to run effortlessly but databases may also be discovered as a back end to most software programs that people purchase.All databases have a certain organizational structure, which files away attributes of the information, which you can then search for and locate within the database.
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