Definitions:

1.Data-refers to qualitative or quantitative attributes of a variable or set of variables.

2.Information- in its most restricted technical sense, is an ordered sequence of symbols. As a concept,
however, information has many meanings. Moreover, the concept of information is closely related to
notions of constraint, communication, control, data, form, instruction,knowledge, meaning, mental
stimulus, pattern, perception, and representation.
3.Database management- Creation and maintenance of a database
4.System-is a software system which has components as its structure and observable Inter-process
communications as its behavior. 
5. Database Management System-(DBMS) is a set of computer programs that controls the creation,
maintenance, and the use of a database or Is a set of software programs that controls the organization,
storage, management, and retrieval of data in a database
6.Data Independence- is the type of data transparency that matters for a centralized DBMS. It refers to
the immunity of user applications to make changes in the definition and organization of data.
7.Data Redundancy- means that some data is stored twice, or that some data can be derived from other
data.
8.Data Integrity- is data that has a complete or whole structure. All characteristics of the data
including business rules, rules for how pieces of data relate, dates, definitions and lineage must be correct
for data to be complete.
9.Relational Database- matches data by using common characteristics found within the data set. The
resulting groups of data are organized and are much easier for many people to understand.
10.Importance of DBMS

Importance of DBMS

Databases are collections of independently stored information pieces (data), and management of a
database involves initial indexing of available data by 'tagging' the individually stored information based
on common factors or lack thereof. This is done through assignment of values which represent relevant
criteria (i.e. phone numbers, names, addresses, etc.). 

When initial values have been assigned one or more relationships between assigned tags can further be
defined which allows for the creation of 'groups' or 'pools' which meet programed criteria to make use of
a database more user friendly (ie. allows users to search within preset groups like: new clients + high
volume + US + wholesale + online sales OR new clients + high volume + US + retail + offline sales,
etc.) 

If values and relationships are not assigned to the information stored within a database (comparable to a
book without numbered pages to refer to) than desired requests for data will take much longer to be
processed thereby wasting time and energy that could be used in a constructive and profitable way by
available resources which for businesses based on provision of data obviously has a considerable impact. 

Database management furthermore involves creation and maintenance of access rights which controls
which users can access what content or not. Automatic management of access rights is seen with internet
search engines that serve paid ads and have customers that wish to limit their ads to select geographic
metropolitan areas. This is done by matching the IP address of the searcher against a list of corresponding
IP locations which as such efficiently allows paid content to be delivered to searchers in targeted areas
only, while blocking access to those who do not yield a match regardless if the keywords for the
submitted search are exactly the same.
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What is Visual Basic?

VISUAL BASIC is a high level programming language which  evolved from the earlier DOS version
called BASIC. BASIC means Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. It is a very  easy
programming language to learn. The code look a lot  like English Language. Different software
companies produced different versions of BASIC, such as Microsoft QBASIC, QUICKBASIC,
GWBASIC ,IBM BASICA and so on. However, people prefer to use Microsoft Visual Basic today, as it
is a well developed programming language and supporting resources are available everywhere. Now,
there are many versions of VB exist in the market, the most popular one and still widely used by many
VB programmers is none other than Visual Basic 6.0.

The Visual Basic 6 Integrated Development Environment

Before you can program in VB 6, you need to install Visual Basic 6 in your computer.

On start up, Visual Basic 6.0  will display the following dialog box as shown in figure 1.1. You can
choose to either start a new project, open an existing project or select a list of recently opened programs.
A project is a collection of files that make up your application. There are various types of applications
that we could create, however, we shall concentrate on creating Standard EXE programs (EXE means
executable program). Now, click on the Standard EXE icon to go into the actual Visual Basic 6
programming environment. 
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Visual Basic Data Types

• Boolean
The Boolean data type has only two states, True and False. These types of variables are stored as 16-bit
(2 Byte) numbers, and are usually used for flags. For example, lets say that you have a textbox (Text1)
and a command button (Command1).
• Byte
The Byte data type is an 8-bit variable which can store value from 0 to 255. This data type is very useful
for storing binary data. It can also be very useful when sending/receiving byte values to/from a Basic
Stamp or PIC.
• Double
The Double data type is a 64-bit floating point number used when high accuracy is needed. These
variables can range from -1.79769313486232e308 to -4.94065645841247e-324 for negative values and
from 4.94065645841247e-324 to 1.79769313486232e308 for positive values.
• Integer
The Integer data type is a 16-bit number which can range from -32768 to32767. Integers should be used
when you are working with values that can not contain fractional numbers.
• Long
The Long data type is a 32-bit number which can range from -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647. Long
variables can only contain non-fractional integer values. I myself use Long variables over Integers for
increased performance. Most Win32 functions use this data type for this reason.
• Single
The Single data type is a 32-bit number ranging from -3.402823e38 to -1.401298e-45 for negative values
and from 1.401298e-45 to 3.402823e38 for positive values. When you need fractional numbers within this
range, this is the data type to use.
• String
The String data type is usually used as a variable-length type of variable. A variable-length
string can contain up to approximately 2 billion characters. Each character has a value ranging
from 0 to 255 based on the ASCII character set. Strings are used when Text is involved.
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