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| Database | a collection of data organized in a manner that allows access, retrieval, and use of that data. |
| Data | collection of unprocessed items like audio, video, text, images,and numbers. |
| Information | entered into and stored in a computer,percieved as output data |
| DBMS | Software that allows users to create a computerized database; add, modify, and delete data in the database; sort and retrieve data from the database; and create forms and reports from the data in the database. |
| Character | A number, letter, punctuation mark, or other symbol that is represented by a single byte in the ASCII coding scheme. |
| Field | A combination of one or more related characters or bytes and is the smallest unit of data a user accesses. |
| Field name | Name that uniquely identifies each field in a database. |
| Record | A group of related fields. |
| Data Type | Specifies the kind of data a field in a database can contain and how the field is used. |
| Primary Key | A field that uniquely identifies each record in a file. |
