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In [[object-oriented programming]], [[data management|data-management]] tasks act on [[object (computer science)|object]]s that are almost always non-[[scalar (computing)|scalar]] values. For example, consider an address book entry that represents a single person along with zero or more phone numbers and zero or more addresses. This could be modeled in an object-oriented implementation by a "Person [[Object (computer science)|object]]" with an [[attribute (computing)|attribute/field]] to hold each data item that the entry comprises: the person's name, a list of phone numbers, and a list of addresses. The list of phone numbers would itself contain "PhoneNumber objects" and so on. Each such address-book entry is treated as a single object by the programming language (it can be referenced by a single variable containing a pointer to the object, for instance). Various [[Method (computer programming)|methods]] can be associated with the object, such as methods to return the preferred phone number, the home address, and so on.
By contrast, many popular database products, such as [[SQL]]
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