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What is Database?
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A book?
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A spreadsheet?
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A menu on the table in the restaurant?
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Database
is a collection of data that is related to a particular topic or purpose.
As an example, employee records in a filing cabinet, a collection of sales leads in
a notebook, are examples of collections of data or databases.