Reading Questions

Read pages 266 - 272 in the old book and pages 144-147 in the Stuart Gray book. Answer the following questions.

1. What are the two sides of the coin for database technology?

2. Give three examples of databases that you make use of regularly.

3. Describe the anatomy of a database.

4. What are some of the operations that a database would be expected to perform?

5. Describe one of the operations you listed in question 4 and give an example to illustrate this operation.