That Blue Square Thing - AQA GCSE Computer Science

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AQA Computer Science GCSE

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Databases and SQL

Databases are really important in the modern world.

We use data everywhere. And that has to be organised, usually in a database.

Most of the marks here will be for writing database queries, but there are some really important definitions that you need to make sure that you know as well. Don't ignore these sorts of things.

Key points:

Definitions – the key set of terms you need to know

Key database ideas – fields and records