Handling Information?What is

What is handling information?

Information handling involves gathering,

storing, manipulating, interrogating

and using information.

Being able to handle information is a very important ‘real- life’ skill.

Handling information

We can solve a problem by collecting, organising,

representing, extracting

and interpreting data in tables, graphs and charts.

We can use a database to handle information.

What is a database

A database is an ordered collection of information which allows searching for specific information and enables individual items to be added and amended.

An example of a database is an address book : this contains names, addresses and telephone numbers, normally arranged in alphabetical groups.

Computers can help to handle information very quickly.

A computer database might contain exactly the same information - but would allow the user to store, retrieve, organise and compare information with far greater speed and efficiency.

Items in a computer database can be accessedin a systematic way by asking questions.

What is a database?

A collection of information organised in such a way that a computer program can quickly select desired pieces of data.

You can think of a database as an electronic filing system.

A large amount of data stored in a well-organized manner.

A collection of records or files of information grouped together.

More definitions :-

Information Workshop 2000 is an example of an information handling program.

Here is an example of a record from a database

containing census information.