A Database for a Football Team

The secretaries are currently finding it extremely difficult to keep up with all the current 'goings-on' in the clubs transfer market, and the clubs chairman will need to pass on records easily if a player gets transferred, so it will be much easier to email the record to the club whom the player is transferring to.

Discussion of software

I have decided to use Microsoft Access for this project, because it is a package that allows you to create a database quickly and easily. I am also quite familiar with Access so creating a suitable database should not be a problem for me. Access has many functions which allow your to create an efficient database, and a few examples of these are:

* Queries

* Forms

* Reports

These functions are unique to Access and are not available in any other Microsoft package. Creating a database that is user-friendly, cost efficient and simple to navigate is relatively easy in Access

Comparison with alternative

I have chosen to use Microsoft Access over another package, such as Microsoft Word, because Access is a package designed specifically to create and use databases. Although it would not be impossible to create a database in Word, it would be extremely difficult and not recommended. Access boasts many features that are unique to it. The settings are really easy to change and the wizards are readily available to help create things such as forms and reports. Word lacks these features and is more of a word processing package that a database package. To create a database hand would cause too much bother and the papers could be left lying around and the records could become disorderly and could cause the secretaries to spend hours trawling through pieces of paper to find specific records.

ckd 00:31 02/05/2007