G3 - Access - Skill 1 - What is a database

How can we make a database?

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What is a database?

• A number or a word that has no meaning on its own

• Data has meaning

• A document

• A collection of data held in tables

• A collection of completed fields about one thing/person

What is a data?

• A number or a word that has no meaning on its own

• Data has meaning

• A document

• A collection of data held in tables

• A collection of completed fields about one thing/person

What is information?

• A number or a word that has no meaning on its own

• Data has meaning

• A document

• A collection of data held in tables

• A collection of completed fields about one thing/person

What is a field?

• One piece of information

• Data has meaning

• A document

• A collection of data held in tables

• A collection of completed fields about one thing/person

What is a record?

• One piece of information

• Data has meaning

• A document

• A collection of data held in tables

• A collection of completed fields about one thing/person

A File is ...........

• One piece of information

• Data has meaning

• A document that is stored in a computer

• A collection of data held in tables

• A collection of completed fields about one thing/person

There are ....... fields in this table.

There are ....... records in this table.

How many records are there in this table?