With regard to databases, what is a table?
A table a collection of related information about a particular topic. A table might contain the names and addresses of a company’s customers or a table might contain a list of the company’s inventory. Another name for a table is file. 2. With regard to databases, what is a field? As discussed above, a file is a collection of related information. Every file is divided into columns called fields. A field contains one category of information relating to the subject of a file. If the topic of the file is a company’s customers, the file would contain fields such last name or first name. Each field must have a unique field name. 3. List seven different field types a table might contain. Numeric, text, date or time, logical, counter, memo and binary are the field types that can be found in a database. 4. With regard to databases, what is a record? If you read across the fields (columns) in a table and collect one piece of information from each field, the information you gather is called a rec