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 About
databases
The building block of a database is the record. A record is
a collection of related data treated as a single entity. For
example, a hockey trading card could be called a record: it
brings together the name, photograph, team, and statistics of
one player. Using database terms, each of these related pieces
of information is called a field: each hockey card “record”
has a name field, a photograph field, a team field, and various
statistic fields.
A collection of records that share the same fields is called
a table because this kind of information can easily be presented
in table format: each column represents a field and each row
represents a record. In fact, the word column is synonymous
with the word field, and the word row is synonymous with the
word record.
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