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What does fields mean in a datebase?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 11/10/2020

A database has elements called records which refer to meaningful things that you want to maintain. For example in a data base of your acquaintances, you might wish to maintain the addresses of people you know. A record might consist of a mailing address for a person. The key to the record might be the person's full name. rather than just keeping the address as a single field, we may wish to divide the address record into fields that are maintained as part of the record. The fields might be Street Address, City, State and Zipcode. Because we have separated the parts of the address into fields, we can ask questions like "Give me the full address of all people I know in Maryland." How we define the contents of records into fields ultimately determines the overall utility of the data base to provide the information we need.

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14y ago

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