| Database | Data Stored in each Record | What if there are errors? |
School Attendance |
Name of Child Attendance |
The wrong class may win the weekly attendance award.
Children may be trapped in a fire and nobody would know if they were marked as absent. |
Supermarket |
Name of Product Sell-by date Price |
Customers may be charged the wrong price for their shopping.
Customers may buy food that is out of date and could make them ill. |
It is therefore important that you always check a database to make sure there are no mistakes in it.