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What is a computerised database?
Folders on computers. e.g computerised Yellow page( computerised phone book). Normal phone books are paper-based database.
Does a database have to be computerized?
No. A database can be manual, like a phone book or a shopping list. For it to be a database it needs to be structured or organised. If you take a phone book, although there are thousands of names in it, you can usually find a phone number you are looking for very quickly. This is because the phone book is structured and organised. So it does not have to be on a computer to be a database. A manual database can be computerised. The data would be entered into a computer.
Differentiate manual database to a computerized database?
A manual database is a paper based database. A computerized database is one which is held on a computer in an organised manner. A computerized database is more advantageous than manual database in terms of speed, flexibility, and ease.A manual database would normally be data held on paper. So this could be things like a phone book or address book, or files held in a filing cabinet. A computerised database is held on a computer in an organised and structured form. Usually this is done using a database application such as Oracle or Access etc. It is easy to manipulate and extract data, so far more efficient than a manual database.
How does akinator work?
Very simple, it uses algorithms. It has a huge database (Wikipedia) and it guess your character from the answers you give. For example, if your character is a woman Akinator it will examine only the data that contains female names from its database.
What is an example of a database system?
There are many of them. Here are just 10:Microsoft AccessOracleMySQLDbaseProgressBase (Open Office)IngresFilemakerInformixLotus Approach
