Organized collection of structured information stored electronically for easy access management and retrieval
set of tables from which data can be accessed in different ways without reorganizing the database tables
Rows: represents individual record within a table
Columns: attributes with specific data
Primary keys: unique identifier for each row in a table
Foreign keys: establishing a link between
One to one: both tables can have only one record that matches the other
One to many: table contains records that can relate to one none or many
Many to many: a record in either table can relate to any number of records in another table.