Database
| We all take databases for granted and use them everyday without thinking
about it. When was the last time that you looked in a telephone directory,
dictionary or address book? Or how about a TV programme guide or a mail order catalogue?
The information in these manual databases is on paper but they all
have one thing in common, the information is stored in a set way in each
of them. In a telephone directory you find the surname, initial, address, phone number for every record in the book. In a dictionary, you will have the word itself, the pronunciation, then the meaning. |
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| Each of these sets of information about one person or one word is called a record. | |||
| Each individual piece of information like a surname, or an initial is called a field. | |||
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| How many fields are there in these records and what are they? Write down your answers. | |||
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