Databases
Hierarchical databases
Hierarchical relationships among different types of data.
- can be very easy to answer some questions,
but very difficult to answer others
- if one-to-many relationship is violated (e.g., a patient can
have more than one physician) then the hierarchy
becomes a network
R. Funnell
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