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So far, we have used spreadsheets and DataFrames to hold data. However, both of these are limited in how much information they can store.
So far, we have used spreadsheets to hold data. However, these are limited in how much information they can store.
This is where a relational database comes in.

**Relational databases** store data in tables, which are connected to each other in a variety of different ways.
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For integers, we will be using the `int` data type. As you grow in your career, you may see others such as `bigint` or `tinyint` in SQL databases.
The [SQL documentation](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/data-types/data-types-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver16) offers a full breakdown of these different integer types.

SQL also has a `decimal` data type that is similar to what we have already seen with `double` in Python.
SQL also has a `decimal` data type which, as the name implies, allows for a specified number of digits after the decimal.

### Strings

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