https://moodle.taltech.ee/mod/resource/view.php?id=122289
The String type stands for a sequence of characters, in this way it is used in UML. In SQL Strings can be realized with several types, e.g., with
VARCHAR(n) -- n means the maximum length of the String
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~nn/csc309/guide/pointbase/docs/html/htmlfiles/dev_datatypesandconversionsFIN.html
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