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Database Design and Modeling with Google Cloud

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804611456
Pages 234 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Abirami Sukumaran Abirami Sukumaran
Profile icon Abirami Sukumaran

Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface Part 1:Database Model: Business and Technical Design Considerations
Chapter 1: Data, Databases, and Design Chapter 2: Handling Data on the Cloud Part 2:Structured Data
Chapter 3: Database Modeling for Structured Data Chapter 4: Setting Up a Fully Managed RDBMS Chapter 5: Designing an Analytical Data Warehouse Part 3:Semi-Structured, Unstructured Data, and NoSQL Design
Chapter 6: Designing for Semi-Structured Data Chapter 7: Unstructured Data Management Part 4:DevOps and Databases
Chapter 8: DevOps and Databases Part 5:Data to AI
Chapter 9: Data to AI – Modeling Your Databases for Analytics and ML Chapter 10: Looking Ahead – Designing for LLM Applications Index Other Books You May Enjoy

Structured data

Structured data is data that has a well-defined structure, type, and format organized and standardized in a repository called a database for storage, retrieval, and processing. Structured Query Language (SQL) is used for interacting with this data. This means that structured data has a fixed set of attributes and is in the format of rows and columns.

Rows and columns

Rows are the entities or records and columns are attributes. Simply put, columns are the labels or headers in your table and rows are the values under those headers. Consider Table 3.1:

Name

Age

ZIP

John Doe

35

33306

Michael Angel

40

33309

Table 3.1 – A table with rows and columns

The Name, Age, and ZIP labels are the...

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