The Suppliers and Parts database is an example relational database that is referred to extensively in the literature[citation needed] and described in detail in C. J.
Date's An Introduction to Database Systems, 8th ed.
[1] It is a simple database comprising three tables: Supplier, Part and Shipment, and is often used as a minimal exemplar of the interrelationships found in a database.
The following SQL schema is one possible expression of the Suppliers-and-Parts database.
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