Relational Database

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The paper considers how a relational database can be used to store types of files not normally stored in this manner, such as images. The paper finds that a means of doing so has been developed for art history classes so that the instructor can access information, including images, as needed. The paper demonstrates how relational database management systems provide for relating files, or linking files to one another through a key field. The paper explains how a relational database system has the advantage of allowing a simple database system to grow as needed.

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"Relational database management systems provide for relating files, or linking files to one another through a key field. A relational database system has the advantage of allowing a simple database system to grow as needed. Data file management is flexible so it can handle integrating new requirements. In order to make a database system work, there are certain design rules that need to be followed. It is important to eliminate any repeating groups of fields and it is necessary to eliminate fields that do not depend entirely on the key field (Dologite 164-165). Databases in the future are likely to be influenced by five factors: developments in telecommunications, scanning and storage improvements, increasing database distribution options, user needs and demands and changes in database production. These are the factors influencing databases today, and they will continue to be the pivotal elements in the future (Tenopir 70-71)."

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