Relational database?

What are the advantages of a relational database in the way that it stores data, and allows for queries, over other types of application (eg spreadshe

What are the advantages of a relational database in the way that it stores data, and allows for queries, over other types of application (eg spreadsheet)?

or:What are the advantages of a relational database in the way that it stores data, and allows for queries, over other types of application (eg spreadsheet)?

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