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    <p>Sorry if this has been asked elsewhere, but I couldn't find a clear answer anywhere.</p> <p>I have decided to begin learning to use relational databases a bit more, namely SQL. This is a major beginners question but its probably essential to get started on.</p> <p>I'm basically a little confused the best practice on how to utilize SQL (or other). At college i have accessed databases (using JSON strings) for things such as mobile apps, but i have never actually designed and built a database myself, as my tutor made the mentioned database for us to access himself. </p> <p>Lets say I have a C# application that holds genealogy information (i.e. families and their members) and i wanted to store each individual on a database. Would I, simply use the structure I already have but save to fields in a database instead of an xml or text document? Or does it work the other way, i.e. do I create a database with required fields then just retrieve this from the database in a c# application and manipulate the data as I so wish, so the application would be entirely different (so the c# application basically doesn't really hold/store any data and just works on whats fed from the database)? </p> <p>Whats troubling me is that usually where I would store my c# objects in a dictionary or list for example, would i instead just retrieve straight from the database? or retrieve from the and store the data into a normal structure and work from there (surely this would defeat the point of fast-searching from a database)?</p> <p>I may be over-thinking it slightly. Hope that makes sense. Thanks in advance</p>
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    1. COYou will get a lot more traction on this question if you ask it over at http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ (stackoverflow is one of many sites in the stackexchange)...
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