Glossary term
What is Database?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Database" means: An organized place to keep facts, made up of tables that can be linked together. It is taught in SQL: Ask Any Database Any Question and Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs. Related terms include Table, Row, Column and Primary key. Every Apex Flow Academy course lists the official sources it checked.
- 2 courses teach it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Database?
An organized place to keep facts, made up of tables that can be linked together. (From SQL: Ask Any Database Any Question. 1 other course defines it for their own subject, so each definition follows.)
What does Database mean in SQL: Ask Any Database Any Question?
An organized place to keep facts, made up of tables that can be linked together.
What does Database mean in Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs?
Organized storage that keeps data on disk so it is still there after the program stops.
Where is Database taught?
Database is defined in SQL: Ask Any Database Any Question and Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs.
SQL: Ask Any Database Any QuestionNode.js: Build the Back End and APIs
Which lessons cover Database?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- SQL: Ask Any Database Any Question, lesson 1.1: Build Your Practice Database
- SQL: Ask Any Database Any Question, lesson 2.2: AND, OR, NOT and Parentheses
- SQL: Ask Any Database Any Question, lesson 2.4: LIKE: Match Patterns in Text
- SQL: Ask Any Database Any Question, lesson 3.3: HAVING: Filter the Groups
- Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs, lesson 3.3: Move the tasks into the database
- Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs, lesson 5.2: Test your API with node:test
Which terms are related to Database?
Next to Database in the course glossaries: Table, Row, Column, Primary key, Query string, SQL, Header, SQL injection, REST and Placeholder.
TableRowColumnPrimary keyQuery stringSQLHeaderSQL injectionRESTPlaceholder
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Database?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner and intermediate level:
- SQL: Ask Any Database Any Question: No coding or database experience is needed.
- Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs: Basic JavaScript: variables, functions, objects, arrays, conditions and loops.