lecture 1

Cards (3)

  • What is a database?
    • Organized data
    • Different types and sizes
    • End user extract data
    • Can be used by apps and departments in a specific organization
    • stores text, images, videos, and sounds
  • Examples of Databases
    • Monthly expenses, bills, mailing address labels
    • Fitness/Food/ Asset tracking
    • Budget/stock/employee info
    • EHR/Lab/meds/radiology users
  • Advantages over Excel
    • Large # of data
    • Easy to maintain
    • Avoids Redundancy
    • Interface and Apps built based off of data
    • user input controlled bases of validations entered
    • Security enforced
    • Data relationships defined