- Database creating facility
- Table/ filers structures for holding related records
- Records/ database updating facility
- Search facility that enables the user to scan through the records in the database so as to find information needed
- Forms (input screens) for viewing and entering data into a table
- Sorting facility, which enables the user to organize & arrange the records within the database.
- Report generating facility
- Query facility
- Data validating facility, which ensures that, the correct data is entered into the database
- Macros which are used to automate frequently performed procedures or tasks
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