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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

database

A (usually large) collection of data items and links between them, structured in a way that allows it to be accessed by a number of different applications programs. The term is also used loosely to describe any collection of data.

Related terms
metadatareportdata retrievalinformation retrievalretrieveschemaquery languagedatabase management system (DBMS)database managerfileflat file databasehierarchical databasequeryrecordStructured Query Language (SQL)data redundancyattributeentityentity relationship diagrammany to manynormalisationnormaliseone to manyone to onerelational databasetuple
Term sub categories
Software › databases - general
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