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where facts go to retire, get indexed, and occasionally lie to you anyway.
means a database is an organized collection of information built so software can store, find, and update it fast and reliably.
from from database, coined in the 1960s us military and computing circles for shared machine-readable files, replacing the file cabinet as civilization's memory.
first relational dbibm system r, built 1970s from edgar codd's paper
sql ironystructured query language, famously used to write unstructured chaos
biggest onestrack billions of rows updated every second globally
acid testa real term ensuring transactions don't corrupt data