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ASA Getting Started

Databases and Applications


About this chapter 

This chapter introduces basic database concepts. It describes what a relational database is, and what it is used for. It also describes how databases and database applications work together.

Other parts of the documentation set assume that you are familiar with the concepts introduced in this chapter.


Relational database concepts
SQL and database computing
The pieces of a database system
How the pieces fit together

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