What you need to know about databases
Paper One and Two may require you to evaluate the social and ethical issues involved in the use of databases, you should have an understanding of the following related technological concepts:
Design and creation concepts,
a) field, key field, record, search, query, sort, database management system, mail merge
b) What are relational databases?
c) Flat-file database versus relational database
d) Paper files versus electronic files
e) Data redundancy and data integrity
f) Updating data
g)Data transfer between a database and a spreadsheet
h) Search and the use of the Boolean operators (AND, OR and NOT)
i) Data mining
The above will enable answer questions on databases
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