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D Web Development

You're reading from   D Web Development Leverage the power of D and the vibe.d framework to develop web applications that are incredibly fast

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785288890
Length 196 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kai Nacke Kai Nacke
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Your First Web Application FREE CHAPTER 2. Using Templates for Your Web Pages 3. Get Interactive – Forms and Flow Control 4. Easy Forms with the Web Framework 5. Accessing a Database 6. Using the REST Interface 7. The vibe.d Internals 8. Using vibe.d with a GUI Client 9. Power Your Application with vibe.d Extensions Index

Choosing the right database technology

Before extending the note application, let's take a look at the different database technologies available for use.

Relational databases

The predominant type of database is the relational database. The foundation of relational databases is the relational model, a mathematical notation developed in the late sixties by E. F. Codd. The basic idea is to define structures and integrity features and manipulations on them. Most relational databases today use SQL, the Structured Query Language, to implement the relational model. A collection of tables defines the structure of the database. A table is a collection of rows that have the same columns. Each table must have a primary key consisting of one or more columns. The primary key uniquely identifies a row in the table. In order to reference a row in another table, you store the primary key of the referenced row in your table. This is called a foreign key. Integrity demands that the foreign key must exist...

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