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These days we tend to think only of computer-based databases, but databases have been with us for centuries. The ancient Egyptians stored data on stone tables in columns and rows. More recently, libraries used a card index system to allow users to retrieve an ISBN number from an indexed drawer, full of cards.
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Much of the tutorial material was initially created by Antonis Petrou as an output from his MSc dissertation at Sheffield Hallam University. He was an excellent student to supervise and achieved an excellent final mark for his work. I am grateful for his permission to use portions of his work. Peter Lake
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Hill, R., Hirsch, L., Lake, P., Moshiri, S. (2013). Data in the Cloud. In: Guide to Cloud Computing. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4603-2_6
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