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Sometimes when people speak of "a database", they are just speaking of a single table, a grid of columns and rows. But if you're not going to at least use a form also, you might as well put the data in a spreadsheet. A better use of the word "database" implies a collection of one or more tables (one can be fine) and queries, forms and reports designed to make accessing the data in those tables easy and user friendly. In this sense, "the database" is the entity that contains those elements. Generally, the tables, etc, in "a database" should all be concerned with a single task. Examples of "a task": Managing a directory of the people in an organization, inventorying assets, tracking orders and stock, phonebooks, school lists, etc., etc. While you are trying to improve your ooBase skills, you may find yourself with "a database", a collection of tables, etc, which has unrelated things in it. If you are just "playing around", just trying to see if you've understood something, then there's no need to start a new database each time you want to, say, make a table and a create a report to display data from it. Just be careful to give any such databases sensible names. Use names like "ScrappyExperiments". If in doing some of my tutorials you choose not to open a new database for each one, that will usually be okay. Just be a careful that there is no overlap in the names of tables, forms, etc. I have a database called "Tmp". It contains a truly awful mishmash of scraps of projects in it. But if I just want to set up a table to see what values can be put into a "BigInt" field, I can create that table within "Tmp" with no consequences. When you are building a set of tables, forms, etc to address some real need, it would be wise to put them all, and only them, in their own database. Starting a new database is not difficult; if in doubt, do it.

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