Advantages and disadvantages of multimedia databases?

Answer 1

Advantages of multimedia databases include that it is easy to use, makes lectures more interesting, and it is visually appealing. Some disadvantages of multimedia databases include the expense, and the fact that they are not always easy to configure.

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They are easy to use if designed to be so - including robust error-traps so for example the programmes does not crash from an incorrectly-typed admin entry (yes, I've battled with commercially-made rubbish that did just that). To design and write a proper, complex, database is never easy unless you have a great deal of skill and experience in them - and therein lies the root of many software problems from the users' point of view. The programmer knows the application intimately, down to language level, machine-code even; can run its most arcane routines without thinking; so cannot see why he or she has given the "shop-floor" staff an utter nightmare to use!