FileMaker's not only fantastic at showing you information, it also excels at helping you see what it all means. In other words, a well-designed report summarizes the data for you. But a report that divides that information into 25 music genres, each with sales totals, both in aggregate and by gender, helps you interpret all those reams of data at a glance. If you want to understand your customer's music tastes, a report of 200,000 individual CD sales won't do you much good: The information is in there somewhere, but your feeble mind stands no chance of ferreting it out. But people aren't so good at dealing with all that detail (hence the invention of the database). A database excels at keeping track of thingsitsy bitsy teeny tiny details about hundreds, thousands, even millions of little things.
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