ACCESS DESIGNING

In the simplest sense, a database is a collection of records and files that are organized
for a particular purpose. On your computer system, you might keep the names and
addresses of all your friends or customers. Perhaps you collect all the letters you write
and organize them by recipient. You might have another set of files in which you keep
all your financial dataaccounts payable and accounts receivable or your checkbook
entries and balances. The word processor documents that you organize by topic are, in
the broadest sense, one type of database. The spreadsheet files that you organize
according to their uses are another type of database.