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Making connections with relational databases
From the course: Learning Data Science
Making connections with relational databases
- Data scientists will work with data in many different forms. They'll use data from a legacy database or old spreadsheets. They'll also work with pictures and videos. That's why you should be familiar with common ways that organizations store their data. Most organizations have a wide range of ways to store their data. Some of them are very modern, others not so much. The best way to understand these different technologies is to start from the beginning. Even the most modern databases often built on technology, which is over 50 years old. Modern databases really got started with the Apollo space mission in the 1960s. NASA worked with IBM to create an information management system or IMS. The rockets that would go into the moon required millions of parts. The space agency had these early manifests, which looked very much like modern spreadsheets. It was a computer file with a series of columns and a long list of rows. As you can imagine, a table with millions of rows might become…
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