The latter is often handled by tailor-made tools, and this is where you come in. The authorities thankfully don't allow that approach to driving a car. The databases coming out of these operations leave a lot to be desired. E.g. name, phone number, price or any other single item of a database is a column of data in a table . The whole set of tables that make up all relevant data for a project or system.
Field See column .
Record Corresponds to each card in a cardfile. In relational databases, and VB terminology, it is often replaced by the term row . Row Corresponds to record , which would be individual cards in a cardfile. Table Each two-dimensional data array in a system is called a table. Few who do serious database work in VB can do without Microsoft Access.