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Data types
Media
The media data type can be used as a table field data however cannot be used as a variable or parameter it allows you to import media files
Geospacial
geospacial data is information recorded with a geograhical indicator of some type the two primary forms are vector data and raster data.
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Temporal
Temporal data types refers to data types that respresent points in time or duration of time like day, hour, second
Numeric
The Numeric data types include (Interger, Decimal, Float)
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Storing data
on-premises
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file servers
File servers are large racks of storage devices usually that are able to transfer storage and store huge amounts of data.
hard drives
Hard disk drive
Hard disk drives contain moving parts and can store large amounts of computers are a secondary storage device that reads and writes data with a magnetic arm.
Solid state drive
Solid state drives contain data using electricity; it is also a secondary storage device using flash memory chips.
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cloud storage
Block storage
Each file is split into blocks of data in a similar way to object storage, but they are made up of equal sized blocks and stored for optimised fast access. When data is requested the data blocks are reassembled as a file. Blocks are usually stored on SANs.
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Object storage
A flat file structure, files are broken down into pieces and stored in aunstructured format. Each piece of data is and object. Each object is referenced by a metadata tag unique to each piece of data.
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File storage
As a shared file system ideal for organisations. File systems are ordered in a
hierarchical order (folders, sub folder etc.)