ASA Getting Started
Databases and Applications
A relational database-management system (RDBMS) is a system for storing and retrieving data, in which the data is organized in tables. A relational database consists of a collection of tables that store interrelated data.
This section introduces some of the terms and concepts that are important in talking about relational databases.
For a tutorial illustrating the concepts described here, see Designing and Building Your Database.
Database tables
Relations between tables
Other database objects