Initially, an office may attempt to

Initially, an office may attempt to place the information on a spreadsheet due to a prior familiarity. However, it quickly becomes apparent that either the personal information would have to be entered each time(that is, each record would contain first name, last name, department, class taken, and class date, and a person taking three classes would have three entries). Alternately, the spreadsheet would have columns for first name, last name, department, class 1, date 1, class 2, date 2, etc., as seen in Figure 1, earlier in this column. Either rapidly becomes unwieldy with increasing database size.