Database

Database
Short for database management system, a database is a collection of data that is organized allowing computer programs to find specific pieces of information. The information is organized by fields, records, and files. A field is a single piece of information; a record is one complete set of fields; and a file is a collection of records. Database design can be done using a variety of languages such as hypertext (using html, CSS) where every object can be linked to another object on the database. This is vital to interactivity because it allows the user to access large amounts of information easily with the help of good design.


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A telephone book can be compared to a file. It contains a list of records, each of which consists of three fields: name, address, and telephone number.



The internet is a huge database that contains is made of websites (files) which contains sets of information in either records and fields. The newspaper is a databse in the form of a single file where journals and articles are fields organized by catagories which serve as records.

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by: Ka Yan (Shirley) Ng