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What is a “Field” within a Database?
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A field is an individual piece of data. For example, a field in a database of students in a school could be “Date of Birth” or “Postcode”.
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Why are unique ID’s needed in databases?
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It allows differentiation between data with similar criteria.
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What is a database?
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A database is an organised store of related data on a computer system.
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What do databases do?
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Databases store, process and retrieve data.
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Why are databases important?
A
They allow programs to easily store and access data.
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