Banco de dados em processos de pesquisa com redes neurais artificiais : uma alternativa às planilhas eletrônicas

Abstract

Electronic spreadsheets are very versatile and popular, however, as the volume of data increases, they can create difficulties that make their use unfeasible. An alternative to this problem is the use of efficient software to work with large amounts of data, which minimize the chances of redundancy, with pre-determined data and tables that are related. Databases have all these characteristics and are superior to electronic spreadsheets. In view of this scenario, the present study aimed to evaluate whether the use of a database can help in the projects of the researchers of the Master's Degree in Agricultural Engineering at CCET-UEG. To this end, two databases were selected for testing as an alternative to electronic spreadsheets. The first database to be tested was MariaDB, in its version 10.6.5 and the second was Access® 2016 from Microsoft Office Professional package. The MariaDB database was not simple for non- professional users, since Microsoft Access® proved to be a powerful and simple relational database program, with vast tools that could be used with ease even by a novice user, creating in an automated way tables, forms, queries and reports, and therefore proving to be superior to MariaDB. From the results obtained, it was proved that the use of a database is an interesting alternative to electronic spreadsheets as they demonstrate the ability to deal with large amounts of data, volume, response time, manipulation and creation.