Chapter 7: Understanding Relational Databases

Overview

Just as perhaps we take movie special effects for granted until we see what the state of the art was in previous eras, so we can't fully appreciate the power of relational databases without seeing what preceded them.

Relational databases allow any table to relate to any other table through means of common fields. It is a highly flexible system, and most modern databases are relational.

Featured in this chapter:

  • The hierarchical database model

  • The network database model

  • The relational database model

  • Learning basic terms

  • Table keys and foreign keys

  • Views



Mastering MySQL 4
Mastering MySQL 4
ISBN: 0782141625
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 230
Authors: Ian Gilfillan

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