Database Concepts

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Database Concepts, what are Databases all about? I am writing this paper to answer a few questions as part of my first assignment in a class designed to provide a better understanding of Database Concepts. There are many different types of databases, different implementations of databases, and different database software applications. So how does all this database stuff work? I have worked with databases for most of my professional career at many different levels. Sometimes as the user, entering data, retrieving information, and compiling reports. I have also provided service and support to help maintain a database system. More recently I perform both types of tasks. I have never stopped to think about what was really going on the background when I was using these systems. I aim to learn more about what databases are and how they function.

Why this course will be important to my career?

The course that I am taking is entitled Database Concepts. This course and what I will learn will be important to my career. My profession, as a PACS Administrator, requires me to utilize and maintain a system that is completely database driven. PACS stands for Picture Archiving and Communications System. The system receives patient information and diagnostic medical images and stores them. One must be able to query for a particular patient and retrieve the images associated to that patient. All the patient information is maintained within the database, the images are stored separately, and the database maintains pointers to the images. Understanding how this information is structured is very important. I manipulate this data on a daily bases to assure data integrity, so the more I understand about the structure the better quality of work I can do.

This course will also enable me to better understand if an MS Access application would work better than some of the systems I use to today. MS Access is an application that I have at my disposal, but don't utilize. Learning more about Access will help me organize some of the data I currently maintain in spreadsheets. Generating reports and performing some trending will help in communicating this information to department leadership. The information that I take away from this class will be important to my career; the key is to utilize what I learn!

Can Microsoft Access be considered an "enterprise tool"?

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