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Databases
From the course: Technology for Product Managers
Databases
- Understanding how data is stored and retrieved will be vital as a product manager. Let's take a look at and demystify the storage centers of information, databases. A database is nothing more than a way to store information in a manner that makes it easy to search and retrieve it when needed. It's similar to a spreadsheet, except in a database, there's no redundancy. Here's an example. Suppose you have a list of contacts and several of them work at the same company. If you manage this in a simple list or spreadsheet, you'd repeat the same company and address for each contact on your list. Now, with a database, you simply note that they work at company X and the database then pulls the address from another table that contains the addresses for the companies that you're dealing with. The address is only entered and stored once in the system. Of course, this doesn't amount to much savings for a small, personal address…