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Database - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Database : (noun)
1: an organized body of related information
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Database :
1. One or more large structured sets of persistent
data, usually associated with software to update and query
the data. A simple database might be a single file containing
many records, each of which contains the same set of
fields where each field is a certain fixed width.
A database is one component of a database management system.
See also ANSI/SPARC Architecture, atomic, blob, data
definition language, deductive database, distributed
database, fourth generation language, functional
database, object-oriented database, relational database.
Carol E. Brown's tutorial
http://www2.bus.orst.edu/faculty/brownc/lectures/db_tutor/)">(http://www2.bus.orst.edu/faculty/brownc/lectures/db_tutor/).
2. A collection of nodes managed and stored in
one place and all accessible via the same server. Links
outside this are "external", and those inside are "internal".
On the World-Wide Web this is called a web site.
3. All the facts and rules comprising a logic programming
program.
(2002-02-09)
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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Example Usage of Database |
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