Database Definition/Meaning:
A collection of interrelated data values of such a nature that they might be
represented as a number of files but not a single file. Depending upon
the nature of the database management system, these files may be integrated
permanently into a single connected structure or integrated temporarily for each
interrogation, known as a query. In its most technical sense the word database
implies that any of the data may be used as key information to specify queries.
In more common usage the word often means any accessible collection of
information, and in that case only a limited set of the data values may be used
to specify queries. See also database system, database language, data
dictionary.
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