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南京理工大学泰州科技学院 毕业设计(论文)外文资料翻译 系　　部： 计算机科学与技术系 专 业： 计算机科学与技术 姓 名： 学 号： 外文出处： 附 件：1.外文资料翻译译文；2.外文原文。 指导教师评语： 签名： 年 月 日 附件1：外文资料翻译译文  附件2：外文原文 Progress Database Design Guide 1.1 What Is a Database? A database is a collection of data that you can search through in a systematic way to maintain and retrieve information. A database can be computerized or noncomputerized. Some noncomputerized databases that you’re familiar with are a telephone book, a filing cabinet, and a library card catalog system. To retrieve information from each of these databases, you proceed accordingly: * To look up a friend’s phone number, you thumb through the telephone book of the town they live in, and search for their last name, followed by their first name. If there is more than one occurrence of the name, you check the addresses, and by process of elimination, you determine your friend’s phone number. The telephone book has a very simple and restricted structure. You cannot, for instance, look up a phone number by the person’s first name or by their address. * To check the balance on a customer’s account, you rifle through a filing cabinet to locate the customer’s folder and pull out the piece of paper with the current balance on it. This database, too, has a restricted structure. You cannot, for instance, look up a customer’s record by their address or the name of their sales representative. Furthermore, to look up all customers with an outstanding balance of more than $1,000, you must go through all the folders individually to find the customers that meet this criteria. * To find a book in the library, you must first determine whether the library has the book by looking it up in the card catalogs, either by title, author’s name, or subject matter. Y