Databases

Databases

Databases are used on a daily basis amongst nearly every industry in the world. Regardless of what job function you currently work you can expect that the data you are using or inputting is coming from or being stored in some type of database. To understand databases you may want to consider how they impact your career, if they are consider enterprise tools, how they are designed and the effort required to do so, and the database architecture.

Why this course will be important to your career

Databases are all around us and by having some knowledge of how they are developed and what they can contribute to my current organization. This course will enlighten me as to the requirements necessary to personalize our databases, how they are developed and how implementing additional databases can improve my organization. While I'm not currently in a technical field I do utilize databases on a daily basis and this class will allow me to understand the finer aspects of them.

With the knowledge gathered over the coming weeks I will be able to begin branching off into another direction for my career. I have aspirations of entering the computer analyst area of Lockheed Martin and armed with this class as well as the others I have already taken and will be venturing into over the coming months, I will be able to meet my objectives. This class lays a foundation of basic database understanding and without it I will not be able to understand database concepts.

Whether Microsoft Access can be considered an "enterprise tool"

Many applications currently used in my office are from the Microsoft Office suite. We currently have no Access databases being used in my office, rather we are using SAP. I do believe we may be able to implement Access into our work center and improve our ability to share information. This being said, I do believe Access has limitations when trying to implement this program on an enterprise basis. Accessibility to multiple users simultaneously can be difficult (at least in my limited experiences). This limits the ability to use the databases across multiple offices within an organization and obviously across multiple organizations.

Microsoft Access is an excellent tool for interoffice work. Examples of this type of use from a previous organization include a Job Control or Preventive Maintenance database that allows users to track the status of maintenance activities.