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Mastering Julia

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Mastering Julia

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Mastering Julia
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

A basic view of databases


In this section, we are going to cover a little bit of groundwork to work with databases. It's a large topic, and many texts are devoted to specific databases and also to accessing databases in general.

It is assumed that the reader has knowledge of these, but here we will briefly introduce some of the concepts that are necessary for the topics in the remaining sections of this chapter.

Packages are being developed and modified at an ever increasing rate, so I urge the reader to review the availability for access to a specific flavor of database, which may not be available at the time of writing, with reference to the standard Julia package list at http://pkg.julialang.org and also by searching at http://github.com.

The red pill or the blue pill?

A few years ago discussing databases was simple. One talked of relational databases such as Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server and that was pretty much it. There were some exceptions such as databases involved in Lightweight Directory...