Key Terms

On its own 130515 mean nothing its just a piece of

data.
You need to add format/ structure and context to data
for it to make sense. This gives data meaning.
For example:
130515 = data
13/05/15 = data with format/ structure which now tells
us this is a date.
13/05/15 = this is the data of it the ICT exam this year.
If we know what data means we have information.
Data + Meaning = Information
A Field is information that has been collected
Record- A series of fields collected together.
Height- Real
Age Alphanumeric
Hair colour- Alphanumeric
Eye colour Alphanumeric
Gender- Boolean
The information school stores about me kept in a record
as part of a database.

Each piece of information they keep about me is stored

in a
Two examples of fields used by school to store my
information are
and
1. A key field is a piece in a database that is unique to
a particular record.
2. A key field could be a student number.
3. It is needed so no student is the same and that is
why they are all unique.
4. Flat files are files that only contain one table.
Complete information about a product.
5. An advantage of is that it is organised.
6. It is limited on how many on how much simple
storage you can have and they are unsuited to
business because the flexibility of the application is
limited.
7. It is a database where you store several tables with
links between the tables.
8. Advantages of a relational database they allow
data to be separated into different topics. They can
also be read together and it has links to link to
each other.
9. A disadvantage of a relational database is that
uses separate tables.
10.
A) Model and Reg-number
b)
c)
d) There are 7 records
A key field is a unique piece of data in a record also
known as a primary key.
A flat file is a database which consists of only one
table.

A relational database is a database that consists of

more than one table. One file (table).