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• DBMS

  • Collection of programs
• DBMS

  • Store, modify, and extract information from a database
• Database:

  • Organizes information internally
• Examples of database applications:

  • Computerized banking system
  • Automated Teller Machine (ATM)
  • Airlines reservation system
  • Railway reservation system
• Word Processors

  • All personal computers are loaded with word processing software which has the same function as a typewriter for writing letters, preparing reports and printing.
• Word processors examples:

  • microsoft word
  • word perfect
  • word star
• Spreadsheet

  • A table containing text and figures, which is used to calculations and draw ; charts.
• Database management system

  ·         Function - Used for storing, retrieval and manipulation of information

  ·         Example: Microsoft access, Oracle
• Data

  • has been interpreted, translated, or transformed to reveal the underlying meaning
• Datum

  • singular of data which means fact, observation, assumption, or occurence
• Data are

  Stored facts

  Inactive

  Technology based

  Gathered from various sources
• Information

  • is a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
• Information

  • can be defined as “data that has been transformed into a meaningful and useful form
• “data is not useful unless it is subjected to a process through

  which it is manipulated and organised, its contents analyzed and evaluated. Only then data

  becomes information.”
• Information is

  Processed facts

  Active

  Business based

  Transformed from data