Programming Foundations: Databases

- Databases let us work with large amounts of data efficiently. They make updating data easy and reliable, and they help to ensure accuracy. They offer security features to control access to information, and they help us avoid redundancy. A database is a structure that stores information in an organized, consistent, reliable, and searchable way. And there are different kinds of databases intended for different use cases. The kind we'll focus on here is the relational database. These are found in many places, from banking and order processing systems, to mobile apps, to content management systems like WordPress, and beyond. Most of the concepts we'll need to understand when it comes to relational databases are interconnected, and in this course, I'll take a sort of progressive approach to explaining them. We'll cover the very basics of relational databases, and then look at the foundational concepts we'll need to understand how they work. After that, we'll dig into the details more to build on those concepts. So the first or second time I mention something, know that we'll get into more detail as we go. I'm Scott Simpson, and I hope you'll join me in this LinkedIn Learning Course to explore the fundamentals of databases.