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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 statistic fields. |
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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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