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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

data retrieval

The process of extracting useful information from large amounts of stored data, such as a database. This usually involves making a query and also stating display and sorting instructions. This enables large amounts of data to be searched and the results to be output. Also known as information retrieval.

Related terms
find (or search)searchsearch criteriadata entryinformationinformation retrievaldatabasedatabase management system (DBMS)queryStructured Query Language (SQL)
Term sub categories
Managing data › processing
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