Database
1. <database> One or more large structured sets of persistent data, usually associated with software to update and
query the data.
A simple database might be a single file containing many
records, each of which contains the same set of fields where each field is a certain fixed width.
A database is one component of a
database management system.
See also
ANSI/SPARC Architecture,
atomic,
blob,
data definition language,
deductive database,
distributed database,
fourth generation language,
functional database,
object-oriented database,
relational database.
Carol E. Brown's tutorial (http://www2.bus.orst.edu/faculty/brownc/lectures/db_tutor/).
2. <hypertext> A collection of nodes managed and stored in one place and all accessible via the same
server.
Links outside this are "external", and those inside are "internal".
On the
World-Wide Web this is called a
web site.
3. All the facts and rules comprising a
logic programming program.
