database
To enter (data) into a database.
Noun
- A collection of (usually) organized information in a regular structure, usually but not necessarily in a machine-readable format accessible by a computer.
- I have a database of all my contacts in my personal organizer.
- A set of tables and other objects (queries, reports, forms) in the form of a structured data set.
- The "books" database will have three tables, and the "customers" database will have two tables.
- A software program (application) for storing, retrieving and manipulating such a structured data set.
- Which database do you use: MySQL or Oracle?
- A combination of such data sets and the programs for using them.
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-redup. Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti Proto-Italic *didō Latin dō Latin datusnom. Latin datumbor. English data Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (bắsĭs)bor. Latin basis Old French basebor. Middle English base English base English database From data + base.
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bibliographic database container database distributed database distributional–relational database embedded database flat-file database geodatabase hierarchical database metadatabase network database object database object-oriented database pluggable database relational database subdatabase superdatabase
Derived
database administrator database analyst database engine database-first database key databaselike database management system database model database publishing database transaction hyperbase tablebase termbase textbase
Verb
- To enter (data) into a database.
- The resulting citation collection was databased and coded for meaning, etymon, and date range (earliest and latest occurrence found). - 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in...