1. What is a spread sheet? 2. How does the program operate? 3. What changes can the user of the spread sheet make? 4. What can modern spread sheet software have and do? 5. What does modern spread sheet software have as built-in functions? 6. What was and is the situation with modern spread sheet software? 7. How does modern spread sheet look like? 8. Are spread sheets and data bases the same thing? 9. Are spread sheets and databases interoperable? 10. What is the role of the modern spread sheet software in the office? 11. What is a data base? 12. What example is given about data base? 13. What are database management systems? What do they do? 14. Can you give any examples of database management systems? 15. How is the term data base used outside the world of professional information technology? 16. What main groups of interactions catered for by most existing DBMS exist? 17. Can you explain what these four groups do? 18. What is DBMS responsible for? 19. What is RAID used for? 20. How may DBMSs be built? 21. What happens when databases and DBMSs can be categorized according to the database model(s)?
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| ENGLISH WORD | |
| active cell | |
| AutoNumber | |
| cell | |
| column | / |
| database | OLE |
| data type | ( - CD ) |
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| field | |
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| memo | |
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| query | |
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| row | |
| sort | |
| text | |
| yes/no |
