Thursday, February 10, 2011
Non-Computer Examples of Flat Files @ 5:40 PM
~Non-Computer Examples of Flat Files~
Advantages
- No use of power
- No level of technical expertise required
Disadvantages
- Takes up space
- Tedious and slower to use and harder to search (can't use multiple criterias)
- Difficult to edit, update, duplicate and copy
- Redundancy of data (repetition of data)
- No back up
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Non-Computer Examples of Flat Files @ 5:40 PM
~Non-Computer Examples of Flat Files~
Advantages
- No use of power
- No level of technical expertise required
Disadvantages
- Takes up space
- Tedious and slower to use and harder to search (can't use multiple criterias)
- Difficult to edit, update, duplicate and copy
- Redundancy of data (repetition of data)
- No back up