Information Systems and Databases

What the hell is a database?Why do I care?

• What is an information system?

Environment

Purpose

Who is it for?Needs(s) they have

Information System

Information Processes

Participants Data/

Information

Information Technology

• What is a database?• Why are information systems and databases

linked in this topic? • Why do we still study databases?• Are they relevant?

• What key concepts are important in databases?

• The definition of a database– An related collection of data organised into files,

records fields.

• The arrangement of database elements• FileRecordFieldCharacter

Heirarchy of a database

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