Ideas in this flowchart

• Database organization, storage, retrieval, and controlled record operations
• A database is an organized system
• The system stores information
• The system retrieves information
• Applications use databases
• Databases preserve application information
• Types of information preserved in databases
• User accounts are preserved
• Products are preserved
• Messages are preserved
• Transactions are preserved
• Content is preserved
• Database software provides controlled operations
• The operations apply to records
• Creating records
• Reading records
• Updating records
• Deleting records