So in preparation for Rails Rumble I’ve been researching a lot of sexy little plugins. We have also had a need to test this plugins to make sure they’ll work not just locally but in a shared hosting environment (the first time you get burned and spend an entire weekend, 16 hours, trying to figure [...]
03 Oct, 2008
Posted by: danahern In: database
What is a database?
You’ve probably used or seen an Excel spreadsheet. Well, a database looks similar, but it’s a lot more powerful, a database can do things that Excel only dreamed of doing. A “database” is made up of “tables” which are made up of a bunch of “columns” and “rows”.
Excel Terminology | Database Terminology
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