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record

Type

glossary

Description

A set of related values in a database; a complete segment of information, consisting of one or more database fields.

For example, in a database of people, each person's data is stored in a single record.

A record is also called a row. If a set of records is displayed in the form of a grid, each row is a single record and each column is a database field.

glossary: record, database field, column

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