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Applications often need to access databases to store and retrieve various kinds of data. A database (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database) is an organized collection of data. Although there are many kinds of databases (such as hierarchical, object-oriented, and relational), relational databases, which organize data into tables that can be related to each other, are common.
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Späth, P., Friesen, J. (2020). Accessing Databases. In: Learn Java for Android Development. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5943-6_15
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