After reading this chapter, you should be able to answer the following questions:
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What is a database, and why is it beneficial to use databases?
- What components make up a database?
- What types of databases are there?
- What do database management systems do?
- How do relational databases organize and manipulate data?
- What are data warehouses and data marts, and how are they used?
- What is an information system, and what types of information systems are used in business?
- What is data mining, and how does it work?
