Identify something in your home, job, hobby or similar situation that could be improved if it were managed like a digital database. Perhaps you work in a card shop; The database (see Fig.2) could be your entire card inventory, the tables could be the category of cards, the records could be the subcategories (ex: if one of your tables is “Sports,” the records could be “Type of Sport”), and the fields could be the players on each card. This database would allow you to organize, search, and sort your card collection inventory with ease.

Why are databases so important? When dealing with very small amounts of information, a database might not be the best choice for data management. However, in most businesses, whether through the progression of time or the size of the organization’s collected information, the need for readily-accessible data is a necessity for daily operations.
Picturing a file cabinet is the closest, easiest, and most familiar way to visualize the basic structure of a database. In this example, and like with any database, the information is managed and sorted from the very general (the contents of the entire file cabinet) to the very specific (each individual paper in the folders). The file cabinet is the database. The drawers are tables. The folders in the drawers are the records. The papers in the folders are fields.
Identify something in your home, job, hobby or similar situation that could be improved if it were managed like a digital database. Perhaps you work in a card shop; The database (see Fig.2) could be your entire card inventory, the tables could be the category of cards, the records could be the subcategories (ex: if one of your tables is “Sports,” the records could be “Type of Sport”), and the fields could be the players on each card. This database would allow you to organize, search, and sort your card collection inventory with ease.