Labels:ashcan | bag | basket | box | chat room | crt screen | fence | hakham | monitor | rock | sky OCR: 624 SECTION CHAPTER 11 Poorly designed custom software can result in data dependence a term that refers to data and program modules being so tightly interrelated that they become difficult to modify. Imagine database in which programs and data all exist in one large file! would be impossible to access the data while editing any of the programs. Furthermore, changing the file structure in any way might make the programs unusable Modern database software supports data independence which means separating data from the programs that manipulate data result, sin- gle data management tool can be used to maintain many different files and databases. In addition, standard search, sort, and print routines continue to function, regardless of changes to field names or record structure Fiqure 11-19 furt ...
