In the simplest definition of the word, a database is a storage container for data. A database system is a storage container for data as well as a mechanism for accessing that data. There are several kinds of databases we can think of you can think of a spreadsheet as a database, a mail server, a word document, a relational server based database, desktop database such as Microsoft Access. Even a book is a database.

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