Why You Might Use a Database

Using Database makes managing data easier. For example, I own a business, I could keep track of business deals, invoices, and I could look at monthly or quarterly sales. I could keep track of expenses, names, addresses, and phone numbers too.

I heard the word, database, before in Excel class and I had no understanding of what it was. I took an Excel class previously and learned that data are stored in spreadsheets. After reading chapters 1-3 in, "Access 2007 Inside Out", I learned that data are stored in tables in database. So in a nutshell database stores data in tables and Excel stores data in spreadsheets.