When creating a dataset, it’s important to plan ahead. What type of information will you store? Who will access it? What type of performance do…

Just about all of us have used spreadsheets at some point or another. Whether its been for keeping track of expenses, marking observations in a…

Representing data electronically very often involves the use of some kind of table or tables. However, whether to use only one “flat” table or a…

Stephen Ramsay’s debrief on databases was an interesting tour for me. The description was very intuitive (because database storing are intentionally supposed to help its…

There are disadvantages and advantages to flat file and relational databases. A little background of flat file databases are designed around a single table. This…

Stephen Ramsay, in his article on databases, addresses the differences between flat and relational databases. After reflecting on his explanations, it is impossible to determine…

There are some benefits that the Spreadsheet contains. It is easy to manipulate data in the spreadsheet. Simple and some complicated calculations can be performed…

When choosing a format (or larger infrastructure) in which to store data, there are perhaps two questions that are of utmost importance: the amount of…

There are pluses and minuses to both database types. Flat databases are useful for small amounts of data and are easy to make; however after…

For this blog post, we were challenged to explore Stephen Ramsay’s description of databases. In his text, Ramsay describes two distinct types of databases: flat…