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What is Relational Database?

A database that stores rows in tables and links them with keys and relationships.

user 7 · 3 orders joined

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A relational database stores data mainly as…

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Relational database: users and orders live in separate tables joined by user_id.

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The needle for user_id 7 pushes through the users tray and then the orders tray; one user card and its three order cards lift out together.

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Design the orders, customers and products tables for a relational database in your coding agent, with the foreign keys and the two indexes the checkout query needs.

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