Labels:book | chat room | daily | hakham | sky | stairs OCR: 616 SECTION CHAPTER 11 The flat file model is the foundation for simple databases, such as an e-mail address book, an iTunes playlist, or the addresses for a mail merge It is also the model used for spreadsheets. With flat file, you can search for, update group, and organize records. Each record in a flat file however, IS an independent entity and no relationships can be established between records For example, you can't set up links between all The Beatles songs in your iTunes playlist. If you are listening ta A Hard Day's Night, you can't automatically link The Beatles next most popular top ten song Why would a database need to keep track of relationships? FIGURE 11.0 database jargon relationship an association between data that's An entity-relationship diagram stored in different record ...
