diff --git a/content/sql-part-1/reading/introduction/_index.md b/content/sql-part-1/reading/introduction/_index.md index 08993689..b75fa62f 100644 --- a/content/sql-part-1/reading/introduction/_index.md +++ b/content/sql-part-1/reading/introduction/_index.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ draft = false weight = 1 +++ -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. @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ SQL has many of the same data types you have already worked with so far in this 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 @@ -63,4 +63,4 @@ Which of the following are supported data types in SQL? Select ALL that are corr {{% /notice %}} - \ No newline at end of file +