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Distributed Databases (cont)

In both examples
  • some data is conceptually a single table at corporate level
  • but does not physically exist as a table in one location

E.g. account(acct_id, branch, customer, balance)
  • each branch maintains its own data (for its accounts)
  • set of tuples, all with same branch
  • bank also needs a view of all accounts