Intro to Database

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Notes start on page 194 of Student Book also






Questions to be answered on your CS Blogs and labelled under Databases.

1. What is a database?
2. What does DBMS stand for?
3. What does a DBMS do?
4. What databases are used today in the cloud based world?
5. Describe three of these cloud based databases in detail?
6. What Databases do you use?
7. Describe a relational Database?
8. How is the database organised?
9. Explain what a record is?
10. What is a table?
11. Explain what a field is?
12. What is a key field?
13. What is a Query?
14. How is a database different from a spreadsheet?
15. Describe three differences between spreadsheets and databases?