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Databases for Real
Getting Started
Issue: 1.2 (October/November 2002)
Author: Paul Lefebvre
Author Bio: Paul Lefebvre is a Software Architect and has worked with relational databases for over 7 years. He uses Macintosh because OS X is the bee's knees. REALbasic is his tool of choice because it is fast, fun, and easy.
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Welcome to the first installment of Databases for Real!
Our favorite programming system, REALbasic, has built-in database capabilities. These capabilites are frequently misunderstood and underutilized. My goal with Databases for Real is to help you improve your database knowledge so that you can determine when a database is appropriate for your application.
What is a Database?
There are many examples of things that can be considered a database. Some are:
An e-mail program
Address Book
Recipes stored on index cards
TV listings
Baseball Schedule
What is it that all these things have in common? To use the formal definition of database: They are each a "collection of persistent information." Persistent is relative of course, but generally think of it as "sticking around long enough to be useful."
A database can be stored in many ways. In its simplest form, you could use a text file to maintain your database. Or you could use a REALbasic binary file for more flexibility. Each of these are considered "flat-file" (FF) databases. Flat-file databases have their uses, but they are not what we will be covering in this column.
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