| A | B |
| A database | An organised collection of data |
| Records | All the data about one person or item |
| Field | Each piece of data in a record is a .... |
| Field Name | The title of each piece of data in a database |
| Row | In table view this is one record |
| Column | In table view this is one field |
| Date | One of the data types we use |
| Number | Useful for entering the number of items |
| Text | this might be numbers or letters in a database |
| Primary Key | A unique field |
| Sorting | Putting the database into a certain order |
| Searching | A query does this |
| > | This mean more than |
| < | This means less than |
| = | This means equal to |