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Structured vs Unstructured

Data is everywhere. But the reality is that data in any IT system is

simply a sea of Ones and Zeros. The important thing is the

information we can gather from the data. We realise the

information by reading the Data. Traditionally, the information we

can recover is function of how we stored the data. We describe

data storage in two ways, structured and unstructured. Structured

data is stored in a format that we can retrieve exact data items in a

simple and concise manner. Structured data is typically founding

Database systems. Unstructured data requires that we read a large

amount of data to find the information we are looking for.

Unstructured data is usually stored in flat file systems and we

seldom know exactly which file or where in a file the exact answer

to a query lies.

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