For a few decades, structured data are typically arranged as relational tables and stored in relational databases. Recent years have witnessed the blossom of graph databases, for which graph becomes ...

Excel possesses formidable database powers. Creating a relational database starts with a Master table that links it to subordinates, called (awkwardly) Slave, Child, or Detail tables. Before we dive ...

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File-based databases have been around since the dawn of computing. We’ve always needed to have a way of storing records of the same kind of information. In the PC world, we ended up with very popular ...