A in a database contains all the information about one item. It is made up of many such as Forename, Surname and Telephone Number. We can have different field including text, numbers, time and date.

We can search the database to find information. Another name for a search is a . A search would search on one field. A search will search on more than one field.

Once we have found what we are looking for we can then the information in different ways such as numerical or alphabetical order.

We can then the database to change the way it looks.