In short, database software or a database management system (DBMS) is application software that allows you to electronically create and update a database. You can also extract, delete, or sort information from a database. Finally, you can create forms, queries, and reports.

A database is a collection of organized related information. A relational database consists of related tables. Each table contains records, which consists of fields. Each record contains a key field or primary key.

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