GENERAL DATABASE

Data is:

• a collection of hardware and information

• a collection of text, numbers, and symbols, images with no meaning.

• a collection of software and hardware

• a collection of data and information

Information is:

• is the result of changing software to hardware

• is the result of changing hardware to software

• is the result of changing information to data

• is the result of processing data, usually by computer

Database is:

• an organized collection related software

• an organized collection of unrelated data

• an organized collection of related data

• an organized collection of related hardware

Data management consists of the following tasks

• data capture

• data arranging

• data coding

• data editing

• data classification

The area where the database can be applied are:

• Human resources

• Banking

• Airlines

• Manufacturing

• Telecommunication

Manually system is:

• records data on the whiteboard

• records data on a computer

• records data on paper

• recode data on blackboard

In full words TFPS is

• Traditional File Practice System

• Traditional File Processing System

• Transformation File Processing System

• Traditional File Progress System

Database approaches are:

• Traditional File Processing System

• Database Management System

• Paper-based System

• Automatic based System

Traditional File Processing System:

• users had to write their application programs to store data

• users had to read their application programs to store data

• users had to save their application programs to store data

• users had to delete their application programs to store data

Advantages of Traditional File Processing System are:

• Simplicity

• Efficiency

• Customization