Brittney Parker has always been interested in software and databases and expanding her education of all things technical. She has taken numerous coding bootcamps and development workshops to further her education in the tech space. Brittney is a writer for Girls Write Tech, which specializes in technical writing content and aims to encourage more female developers to share their knowledge.
In the world of computing, a database is an organized collection of data that is typically both stored and accessed electronically from within a computer system.
A database management system, otherwise known as a DBMS, is a piece of software that allows end-users (along with various applications) to interact with the database itself to both collect and analyze the information contained inside.
All of this is important to understand within the context of materialized views, which play an important role in how users interact with and extract value from databases in a variety of…