UNIT 15 DATABASES

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 555.

Exercise 1. Companies often use databases to store information about customers, suppliers and their own personnel. Study the illustrations and then try to answer these questions.

1. What is а database?

2. Which tasks can be performed by using а database? Make а list of possible applications.

What do the terms mean in your language: file, record, field?

Record from an Employee file in a database. This record holds ten fields (the illustration is one)

A database file stores information in fields grouped on records

Exercise 2.Reading.

AHere is part of an article about databases. First, read all the way through and underline the basic features of а database.