Database is the software that I use the least in my classroom. I think that part of this comes from the time that it takes to put the information into the documents before the information can be useful to you. Through this course, I hope that I can start making more use of the program.
The Roblyer text gives us the ideas of the importance of databases. These include, but are not limited to reducing data redundancy, saving time locating and/or updating information, allowing comparisons of information through searches across files, and helping reveal relationships among data.
For me, and for this class, I feel like this post would be most beneficial for later recall if I knew what the information within database consisted of.
Basic features: Data base is all about storing data. After you have stored the data for the first time, you can then update it and sort it as needed. Any data can be sorted in a database numerical, text, graphic, etc.
Search features: This is where you can do reports and queries on the information that you have already inserted into a database. This is key to database and where it allows for a different aspect that a spreadsheet.
Calculation features: While you can use database to calculate formulas, calculations is the speciality of spreadsheets.
Web features: Like in a word process, you can also insert "live" URLs into your documents.
Other functions: You can also take your information in your database and merge them into a word document. This is a feature that is beneficial when you want to show the data that you have compiled with a text document that has already been formatted.
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