Database Tracking and Programing

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A database system is a way to organize information on a computer by a set of computer programs. The database is a mechanism that is used for storing, managing, and retrieving by the use of tables. Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets are used to store data in a tabular form. Database tables consist of columns and rows that contain different types of attribute for each column and each row corresponding with a single record. A database is more powerful than a spreadsheet because a person can retrieve records, update records in bulk, hide items and retrieve them, use to cross reference records in different tables. A database also performs more complete calculations than a spreadsheet.

Advantages of using Microsoft Access 2007 are that a person can track information more quickly thank with the paper method. People that use Microsoft Office Aces 2007 can share information over the web where information can be audited and backed up.

Anyone can use Microsoft Office Access with no work experience. The forms and reports are already built into the software. A person can type information and access 2007 and it will recognize if it is a date, currently, or a type of data information.

Office Access 2007 assists new field types as an attachment like documents, images, and spreadsheets to any record. A person can select more than one value to a cell. Collects and update information directly from Microsoft Office Info Path 2007 or HTML. With Microsoft office and access you can link tables to the database from other sources like Excel, Windows Share Power point Service sites, ODBC, and Microsoft. SQL Serve database to a discussion on more than one set of information.

Microsoft Access is known for a relational database that was created by E.F.Codel in 1969 and is founded on set theory...