Goody thinks that the table is a powerful thinking tool because it creates empty boxes . The electronic database is a continuation of the same core human activity of recording, sorting, organizing. It may start out as an aid to commerce, but it can also make us aware of our unexamined categories and therefore help us become smarter and even perhaps wiser. For an online tutorial, try Webmonkey or the Filemaker Pro tutorial installed on the Macs in the IDT Lab. Windows-based Access is also a good choice for database practice.
Information is data organized and presented in manner that makes it meaningful to user.
A field is the smallest structure in a database, and it represents a characteristic of the subject. Ways of looking at the information in a database. A partial view or particular sorting of the database as a whole. Fields are displayed as columns.