What is a Database—and How Does it Work?
We’ve learned a lot, haven’t we? Among the most important things to take away from this section is how a database works.
Databases are essential for organising, making available, and securing data, and have become increasingly advanced through digitization.
Today, we have vast amounts of data available via the Internet, which is organised through an endlessly large and constantly growing amount of databases. The Internet as we know it would have been pretty useless and empty without the databases as organising bodies.
Let’s check what you have learned in this section: