WHAT IS A DATABASE (dbase)

Manipulating data (information) plays an important role in any organization
today. In order to manipulate the data, information has to be stored, retrieved,
modified or deleted. At any moment new data can be added to a file, or existing
information can be retrieved, modified or even deleted. Instead of one file there
might be several files needed to store information as well as to interact with
other files (file processing). The notion of data manipulation where data may be
stored, retrieved, modified or even deleted is called a database. In addition,
there are times when it is necessary to generate reports based on a certain request
or computations from the database.

Google is a nonsamantic database(case sensative)

Intelligent Database - A database management system which performs data validation
and processing traditionally done by application programs. Most DBMSs provide some data
validation, e.g. rejecting invalid dates or alphabetic data entered into money fields,
but often most processing is done by application programs. There is however no limit
to the amount of processing that can be done by an intelligent database as long as the
process is a standard function for that data.

Semantic Database - Of or relating to meaning, especially meaning in language. A
collection of data arranged for ease and speed of search and retrieval.

A JOURNEY FROM BIT TO DATABASE
Computer information is represented in binary form using a bit.
Each bit contains a value which is either zero or one. Eight bits represent
a byte. Depending on the system one or two bytes represent a character.
Several characters form a field or a string. One or more fields make up a
record. Multiple records build a stream or a file. Finally several files
create a database. However this naming convention may vary slightly, a
string may represent the whole file or a database may contain only a single file.

For next class Design a Graphical User Interface for an Bank Function.