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Databases - When is it appropriate and where are they used?

I would like some answers to these questions about databases: When is it appropriate to use a database? and Describe 5 distinct examples of where databases are used in the wider community. Any answers will be well appreciated. Thankyou.

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1. Databases hold datum. ;-D When you have large amounts of data and need to store and retrieve info, databases are the best model as a container to hold all that info. You can design a database to hold anything. Mostly databases can be flat or object-oriented. Object oriented are the best as you can have many to many relationships among the data with no accidental (or minimal) duplicate records. If you have large amounts of data, then it is best to have a database. Several examples are: XML based list of external data for a web site list of videos used in streaming to determine content, date, time... IMDB - list of Movies database Wikipedia - database of encyclopedic data Geneology data - family tree about.com - database about questions people want to know insurance - information about people and what they have covered DMV - database of vehicles and people who drive or need a state ID (also cross links with voting) OK, there's many more.. Now that I've helped do your homework, good luck!