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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Reading Questions: Chapter 7(contd.)

3. A database is a collection of information in a file. This collection is stored in well-defined tables. The columns in a database table provide characteristics of the records. These characteristics are called database fields. Each field contains one specific piece of information.


5. A. Create a connection to your database.
B. Query the database.
C. Build a report in advance that would layout where you want to display the data.
D. At the time when you build your report, it would be great if you can tie a display field to a column in the database.
E. In your desktop application, you would pass the resultset to this pre-defined report.



10. We have the right of privacy to a certain extent. We need a certain amount of privacy to maintain our dignity and freedom, but on the other hand, our general information such as mailing address and email address may be of great importance to society so they may take that information.


11. Because people store so much information about themselves and their belongings such as bank information and if those were invaded then it would be very bad for those people.

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