Chapter 12. Working with Local Databases

IN THIS CHAPTER

If you’ve done any software development before picking up this book, chances are you have worked with a database. To the uninitiated, a database is a facility for collecting, organizing, and supplying information in an efficient manner. Database design and implementation can vary widely depending on the focus. As with most things in life, it’s hard to do everything well, so there are databases that focus more on optimizing data storage than retrieval and vice ...

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