This section will help you learn how to use a database. A database is one of two applications that you will learn to...
Have you used a telephone book?
Have you used a catalogue to buy CDs or clothes?
Have you seen a holiday brochure...
More and more databases are now electronic because they are easier to use and take up less space.
Electronic...
Here is the data table from a film database that you will use later.
Film
Grading
Time
...
Here are terms that you should now know:
database
electronic
data
data table
row
field
...
In the activity below match the words to the corrrect meaning.
When you are sure you understand what these terms...
Play the simulation to see how to open the AppleWorks database.
Now you try it....
Click on Hard Disc.
Find and open your folder as your tutor has shown you.
Find this file icon.
This is...
You will have noticed that there is no Grading entered for Treasure Planet and The Magdalane Sisters. Play the...
Find your folder on the computer.
Open your folder and load the Films: database.
Load the Film times:...
From time to time the information in a database has to be changed, for example the time that the film is being shown...
There are two spelling mistakes in the data table. Play the animation to see how to change them.
Now you are...
You are going to make the changes using the information in the table below.
Wrong
Correct
...
Through this module you will be asked to print off your work.
To print you have to use a pull-down menu.
Play the...
Move the pointer to File on the menu bar.
Click the mouse button.
A pull-down menu opens.
Pull the mouse...
Before quitting you must save the changes.
Click on the File menu again.
Move the mouse until Save is...
The next two database activities are very similar to the one that you have just done. However, they use different...
The local sports club has a database showing the members' names, numbers, and whether or not they have paid their...
Mrs Lacy uses a database to remind her of family events. Some of the data needs editing.
You have to edit this data...
