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INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT - questions and answers
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INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT ASSIGNMENT 2003-04 1. What are some of the major advantages of organizing information in a database as opposed to the file management approach? There are many advantages of organizing information in a database as opposed to the file management approach. The most obvious advantage is perhaps the fact that you will no longer need filing cabinets. If there is a lot of information involved to be managed, the use of a database will save a lot of space and ease the workload for the users. But there are a lot of other advantages like consistency of data. Unlike the file management approach, each item of data in a database is only held once, this means that there is no danger of an item being updated on one system and not on another. And that brings us to another major advantage, control over redundancy. In a non-database system, the...
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