Creating a database as you've described is a lot of work, and as others have mentioned their might be better alternatives than a relational database. (or at least the typical structure for a ...

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If you were building a contact management app, then you’d essentially just be creating a pretty UX for accessing that database. SQL would then be acting as a go-between for your Java and the ...