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Wrap-up; Glossary terms from week 4



Terms and definitions from Course 4, Week 4

Database: An organized collection of information or data

Date and time data: Data representing a date and/or time

Exclusive operator: An operator that does not include the value of comparison

Filtering: Selecting data that match a certain condition

Foreign key: A column in a table that is a primary key in another table 

Inclusive operator: An operator that includes the value of comparison

Log: A record of events that occur within an organization's systems

Numeric data: Data consisting of numbers

Operator: A symbol or keyword that represents an operation

Primary key: A column where every row has a unique entry

Query: A request for data from a database table or a combination of tables

Relational database: A structured database containing tables that are related to each other

String data: Data consisting of an ordered sequence of characters

SQL (Structured Query Language): A programming language used to create, interact with, and request information from a database

Syntax: The rules that determine what is correctly structured in a computing language

Wildcard: A special character that can be substituted with any other character