It uses this information to create a database of backgrounds, events, objects and activities.

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With a relational database, you start with the domain objects, and represent them in a way that guarantees that virtually any query can be expressed.

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According to Google, there are currently more than 500 million objects about which they can display information from a database of 3.5 billion facts.

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In the database will be maps of places that robots work, descriptions of objects they encounter and instructions for how to complete distinct actions.

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To help sort out the dizzying array of objects sold at auction, check out the Artfact.com database for complete coverage of the art world.

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The Near Earth Object (NEO) database is working to do that, but it is very difficult to locate all of the objects either closer to the sun or behind it.

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