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n., A collection of data items and links between them, structured in a way that allows it to be accessed, manipulated and extracted by a number of different applications programs or query languages.
[ General Dictionaries - A Glossary of Computing Terms ]
A Glossary of Computing Terms. Edited by The British Computer Society Schools Committee Glossary Working Party. 8th ed. Harlow, UK: Longman, 1995.
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n., [databases] Structured assemblies of logically related data, usually machine-readable data, designed to meet various applications but managed independently of them.
[ Arts - Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) ]
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n., A (large) collection of data items and links between them, structure in a way that allows it to be access by a number of different applications programs or query languages. The terms is also used loosely to describe any collection of data.
[ General Dictionaries - A Glossary of Computing Terms ]
A Glossary of Computing Terms. Edited by The British Computer Society Schools Committee Glossary Working Party. 8th ed. Harlow, UK: Longman, 1995.
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n., A large collection of information that has been coded and stored in a computer in such a way that it can be extracted under a number of different category headings.
[ Sciences - A Dictionary of Physics ]
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n., A set of interrelated files that is created and managed by a DBMS (Database Management System).
[ Computer and Information Sciences - The Computer Glossary: The Complete Illustrated Dictionary ]
Freedman, Alan. The Computer Glossary: The Complete Illustrated Dictionary. 8th ed. New York: American Management Association, 1998.
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n., A structured assembly of logically related data designed to meet various applications but managed independently of them.
[ Archives - Dictionary of Archival Terminology ]
Dictionary of Archival Terminology. 2nd rev. ed. Edited by Peter Walne. New York: K.G. Saur, 1988.
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n., An organized collection of information held on a computer.
[ Government - A Dictionary of Law ]
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n., Any collection of information, automated or not, without regard to how it is accessed or stored.
[ General Dictionaries - A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (The Society of American Archivists) ]
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n., Any grouping of data for a particular purpose or for the use of a particular set of end users, usually organized via fields, and providing tools to enable manipulation of the data such as sorting, grouping and extraction.
[ Computer and Information Sciences - Harrod’s Librarians’ Glossary and Reference Book ]
Harrod’s Librarians’ Glossary and Reference Book. 9th ed. Edited by Raymond John Prytherch. Brookfield, Vt.: Gower, 2000.
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n., Data organized and stored so that it can be manipulated or extracted to meet various applications but managed independently of them.
[ Archives - A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (The Society of American Archivists) ]
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n., Information that is accessed and updated through software (a database management system) that has been organized, structured, and stored so that it can be manipulated and extracted to for various purposes.
[ Computer and Information Sciences - A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (The Society of American Archivists) ]
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n., Normally and strictly, a body of information held within a computer system using the facilities of a database management system. All accessing and updating of the information will be via the facilities provided by this software as will be the recording of information on the log file, database recovery, and multiaccess control.
[ Computer and Information Sciences - A Dictionary of Computing ]
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n., 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.
[ Computer and Information Sciences - Free Online Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC) ]
