Introduction to RDBMS : Day 1 : Chapter 1
In this chapter, you will learn to:
What is Relational Database Model ?
In Relational Database model, data is organized/stored in tables. this model was introduced by E.F. Codd in 1970.
- Relational model is an attempt to simplify the database structure.
- It represents all data in the database as simple tables in the row-column format.
- RDBMS can be defined as a DBMS where all data visible to the user is organized strictly as tables of data values and where all database operations work on these tables.
The above picture clearly defines
- The organizing principle in a relational database is the table, a tabular arrangement of data values:
- A table is called a relation.
- The row (or record) in the table is called a tuple.
- The column (or field) is called an attribute.
- The number of tuples is called the cardinality
- The number of attributes is called the degree of the table.
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