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What is a database? - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: FileMaker Pro 15 Essential Training
What is a database?
- [Voiceover] Now before we get started building databases, let's stop for a moment to talk about what a database actually is. So the true definition of a database is that it's a collection of like information with underlying attributes. Now, what does that mean in English? Well, you probably are already familiar with databases that you use on a daily basis and don't even know that they're databases. One that comes to mind is the Contacts app that you might use on your computer or on your iOS devices. So in this case you've got all sorts of information that's being stored inside this app, and those are in the form of instances of individuals. But in addition to all the different individuals, we have underlying attributes that describe each individual. So for example mobile phone or home phone or homepage or notes. You also run into databases all the time in your web experiences. For example, lynda.com is really a database of courses. It allows you to search and even play those…
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