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    Database Foundations

    2-1
    What Is a Table?

    Copyright © 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.


    Roadmap
    Relational Conceptual
    What Is a You are here Databases Data Modeling
    Table?

    Unique Relationships
    Data Modeling Identifiers and and Foreign Keys
    Terminology Primary Keys

    DFo 2-1 Copyright © 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 3
    What Is a Table?
    Objectives
    This lesson covers the following objectives:
    • Describe the features of a single table
    • Explain the advantages and disadvantages of a flat file
    database

    DFo 2-1 Copyright © 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 4
    What Is a Table?
    Single Table
    • A flat file database is a type of database that stores data
    in a single table.
    • Flat file databases are generally in plain-text form,
    where each line holds only one record.
    Customer ID First Name Last Name Address City

    Record 1 CN0001 Rick Carmen King Street Boston

    Record 2 CN0002 Nick Doris 6 Rotrat Boston

    Record 3 CN0003 Mary Pink Centrale Lagos

    DFo 2-1 Copyright © 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 5
    What Is a Table?
    Advantages and Disadvantages of a Flat File
    Database
    Advantages Disadvantages
     Easy to understand  Less security

     Easy to implement  Data inconsistency

     Easy to extract information  Data redundancy

     All records stored in one place  Cumbersome sharing of


    information
     Simple sorting and filtering of
    reports  Slow for huge databases

     Less hardware and software


    requirements

    DFo 2-1 Copyright © 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 6
    What Is a Table?
    Example of a Flat File Database

    Author ID Author Name Title

    Record 1 AD0001 Oscar Wilde A Vision

    Record 2 AD0002 Leo Tolstoy War and Peace

    Record 3 AD0003 Oliver Goldsmith Citizen of the World

    Record 4 AD0003 Oliver Goldsmith Androcles and the Lion

    DFo 2-1 Copyright © 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 7
    What Is a Table?
    Summary
    In this lesson, you should have learned how to:
    • Describe the features of a single table
    • Explain the advantages and disadvantages of a flat file
    database

    DFo 2-1 Copyright © 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 8
    What Is a Table?

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