Benefits of databases
🔵Data structure and normalisation are available through multiple tables
🔵Data and referential integrity is inbuilt
🔵Queries and reports on student progress/exam score trends are easier to create with databases
Drawbacks of databases
🔴They take more skill and training for the principal to use well
🔴Structuring the information so it's easy to edit, query, view, and report can be
difficult for the principal (if normalisation is employed)
🔴Creating a database is more complicated for the principal than just entering data in the cells of a spreadsheet
🔴It is not as easy to copy and paste blocks of data
🔵Data structure and normalisation are available through multiple tables
🔵Data and referential integrity is inbuilt
🔵Queries and reports on student progress/exam score trends are easier to create with databases
Drawbacks of databases
🔴They take more skill and training for the principal to use well
🔴Structuring the information so it's easy to edit, query, view, and report can be
difficult for the principal (if normalisation is employed)
🔴Creating a database is more complicated for the principal than just entering data in the cells of a spreadsheet
🔴It is not as easy to copy and paste blocks of data
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