Recall database vocabulary ...

• A database is a set of tables

• The structure of a database is given by its schema

• An instance is the current contents of a database

• Fields have a type … column items all have that type

• A database table stores information about entities

Attribute

(Field)

Table Name

Top_Scholar

Row

(Tuple)

(Record)

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