RESEARCH ToOLs You CAN USE How Do I Use a Database Laura La Bella Britannica Educational Publishing IN ASSOCIATION WITH ROSEN EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
CHAPTER 1 What Is a Database and as a winner and Sales and a man in a game means there is no a alarm database is a col lection of informa tion that is organized OTI and stored on a com puter This information is also called data which is why the col lection is called a database This data is organized in a special Databases can hold a wide variety way where information of information This can include is interconnected This local state and regional police reports and terrorist tracking means that each piece START
WHAT Is A DATABASE of data is related to others in some way Users can easily find all the information on a par ticular subject Databases can also search for data by categories called fields Some databases store written data Books speeches and other documents are examples of written data Other databases store mainly collections of numbers These databases may include prices sports statistics or personal spending and saving Information on a database can be added changed deleted and retrieved by a user Another way to use a database is to simply store informa tion so that it When it comes to computers retrieved means finding and can be used at a collecting information from a later time
