Database

What is a database?
Data Types
Integral
Example
the connection of data, applications and
devices across your IT organization to be
a structured set of data held in a computer, especially one that is more efficient, productive
accessible in various ways.
What is a field?
Floating Point a variable type that is used to store
floating-point number values
an area in a fixed or known location in a unit of data such as a
record, message header, or computer instruction that has a Character characters include letters, numerical digits,
purpose and usually a fixed size. common punctuation marks (such as "." or
"-"), and whitespace
What is a record?
a collection of data items arranged for processing  by a program. Character String a string is traditionally a sequence
of characters, either as a literal constant or
What is a file? a variable
a container in a computer system for storing information.
What is validation?
composite types A composite type represents the structure
is an automatic computer check to ensure that the data entered is of a row or record, it is just a list of field
sensible and reasonable. names and their data types

Queries are the real

workhorses in a database.
They are used is to
retrieve specific data from
the tables. Queries let you
add criteria to ‘filter’ the
data down to display just
the records you want.