Chapter 6 -- Implementing Database Solutions

When building business solutions, you almost always have to include support for databases. Two types of relational databases, file-based and client/server databases, are commonly used today. This lesson describes a relational database, and discusses the features that file-based and client/server databases offer, and for which tasks each is better suited.

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After this lesson, you will be able to:

• Describe how a relational database is structured.
• Explain the difference between file-based and client/server relational databases.
• Determine when to use each type of relational database.

Estimated lesson time 30 minutes

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