chapter 1

Introduction
The goal of this book is to convince you that relational databases are the best way to store, search and even operate on chemical information. Whether the database contains a hundred structures or ten million, a relational database provides ways to ensure data integrity, to formalize relationships among the data, and to extend the database when new data become available, or when new ways of operating on data become of interest.

This chapter contains no source code or SQL examples.

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