Database and development, also called electronic database, any collection of data, or information, that is specially organized for rapid search and retrieval by a computer. A database management system extracts information from the database in response to queries. A brief treatment of databases follows. A) A database is stored as a file or a set of files.
B) The information in these files may be broken down into records, each of which consists of one or more fields.
C) Fields are the basic units of data storage, and each field typically contains information pertaining to one aspect or attribute of the entity described by the database.