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  2. Database model - Wikipedia

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    The dimensional model is a specialized adaptation of the relational model used to represent data in data warehouses in a way that data can be easily summarized using online analytical processing, or OLAP queries. In the dimensional model, a database schema consists of a single large table of facts that are described using dimensions and measures.

  3. David L. Childs - Wikipedia

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    In 1970 Codd in his key paper on relational databases, A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks, cited one of Childs' 1968 papers as part of the basis for the work. [ 5 ] In 1985 Childs formed Integrated Information Systems with object of focusing on the rapid integration and access of highly distributed disparate data and ...

  4. Relational database - Wikipedia

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    A relational database (RDB [1]) is a database based on the relational model of data, as proposed by E. F. Codd in 1970. [2]A Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) is a type of database management system that stores data in a structured format using rows and columns.

  5. Relation (database) - Wikipedia

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    [5] [6] A relational database definition (database schema, sometimes referred to as a relational schema) can thus be thought of as a collection of named relation schemas. [7] [8] In implementations, the domain of each attribute is effectively a data type [9] and a named relation schema is effectively a relation variable (relvar for short).

  6. Database - Wikipedia

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    A database model is a type of data model that determines the logical structure of a database and fundamentally determines in which manner data can be stored, organized, and manipulated. The most popular example of a database model is the relational model (or the SQL approximation of relational), which uses a table-based format.

  7. Database normalization - Wikipedia

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    To free the collection of relations from undesirable insertion, update and deletion dependencies. To reduce the need for restructuring the collection of relations, as new types of data are introduced, and thus increase the life span of application programs. To make the relational model more informative to users.

  8. Relational model - Wikipedia

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    The relational model (RM) is an approach to managing data using a structure and language consistent with first-order predicate logic, first described in 1969 by English computer scientist Edgar F. Codd, [1] [2] where all data are represented in terms of tuples, grouped into relations.

  9. Outline of databases - Wikipedia

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    Relational database – collection of data items organized as a set of formally described tables from which data can be accessed easily. Relational database management system (RDBMS) – database management system (DBMS) that is based on the relational model as introduced by E. Relational model – for database management is a database model ...