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The Marriage of Hypertext and the Relational Database

There is a natural affinity between a relational database and hypertext documents.

• A database programmer's primary concern is the relations between tables.

• A webmaster's concern is the link between documents.

Both disciplines focus on the exploring and defining interesting links between information. But the technologies are not in competition, they actually enhance each other.

• A database is about storing information in a computer.

• HTML is about displaying information on a computer screen.

The two technologies work together in an extremely natural and organic fashion. It is