[Year 12 IT Apps] An old issue - what are 'data tables' as design tools?

[Mark Kelly]

Hi all.  The proposed IT study design refers to 'data tables' as a 
method of describing software design (p.37 and other locations).

I brought this issue up last year and I'm still unsure what they mean by 
'data table' in the context of a design tool.

(Another reason for having a decent glossary!)

Data tables - in my mind - are the structures that contain records and 
fields in databases. They are not design tools, as a data dictionary 
would be.

Does the proposed design mean to refer to data dictionaries, data 
structure tables - or something else entirely?

Confusedly Yours
Mark

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