What is a Database?

I guess you could call it an electronic filing cabinet. Picture an actual filing cabinet where all of your information is kept. We're not talking about a shop management program per se, just the place where all of the information is stored.

Now picture a filing cabinet from Wal-Mart. On paper it does everything a filing cabinet should do, stores files. But we're not talking about "on paper" are we? The world is rough and dirty, now imagine the abuse of a filing cabinet made from tin. Now picture someone standing on the filing cabinet like a ladder to change a light bulb. Can you imaging a Wal-Mart filing cabinet holding up to that abuse, I can't. How should I describe it, twisted, bent, falling over. Now how about a commercial filing cabinet? Stand on it and the only problem is foot prints.

Where do you want to be standing when your Microsoft database based shop program becomes twisted, bent or just plain crashes?

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