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The acquisition of database software for business information management is a source of business leverage in the ever competitive business environment. The management of business information is made possible by the acquisition of efficient database software. Database software is the term that refers to the computer program that helps to enter, update, organize, retrieve, and report information held in a computer database. Among the commonly used database software for personal computers and server database include Microsoft Access, Open Office Base, Filemaker Pro, MySQL, and Oracle. The benefits of using computer-based database are considerable. Without database software, it would be difficult to find a respectable system of managing information. Companies have varied use of comprehensive and accurate databases. Businesses maintain databases of customers, vendors, supplies, inventories, service requests, product orders and employees. Database software that assists a business to handle important function of a data type and provide appropriate data analysis methods is an essential tool of management. Their user-friendliness and flexibility has made database software crucial business component (Ambler, 2012).
Database software store data as a series of records each holding data for a single entity such as a thing, person, event, or place. Data in software is held in fields each holding a single item of data appropriate to a record. Most of the modern database software provides tools to work with more than one related collection of records. The entry of data starts after defining fields for a series of records. This is made possibly by the simple-to-use data entry form provided by the database software. Database software enables one to import data from commercial database. It also facilitates the downloading of databases from the Web and posting it directly into the fields already defined by the
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