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Relational database concepts


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

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