Each nonclustered table has a data segment. All of the table's data is stored in the extents of its data segment. For a partitioned table, each partition has a data segment. Each cluster has a data segment. The data of every table in the cluster is stored in the cluster's data segment. See Also: cluster, extent, segment
A well-defined string of alternating data elements and data element separators. The electronic equivalent of a line item on a business form.
A data segment is an intermediate unit of information in an EDI transaction. It consists of a clearly defined sequence of functionally related data elements.
A segment of memory containing a program's initialized data. See also: bss segment, hbss segment and text segment.
The portion of memory or auxiliary storage that contains the data needed by an application or a portion of an application. Usually, the data segment is readable and writable.
A sequence of data elements (also see data element).
A segment is the intermediate unit of information in a message set. Segments consist of logically related data elements in a defined sequence. Segments have a unique segment identifier that compresses the first characters of the segment. When segments are combined to form a message set, their relationship to the message set is defined by a segment requirement designator and a segment sequence. Some segments may be repeated, and groups of segments may be repeated as loops.
The intermediate unit of information in an EDI transaction set. A segment consists of a pre-defined set of functionally related data elements which are identified by their sequential position within the segment. A segment begins with a segment identifier - a unique three character alphabetic upper case code (EDIFACT) or a two or three character code composed of upper case characters and digits (X12) which uniquely identifies each segment, and ends with a segment terminator. A data segment is analogous to a logical "record". It is also referred to as simply a "segment".
A grouping of pre-defined elements which when combined together make up a line of information usually referred to as a line item or record.
A segment of memory containing a program's initialized data. Compare with "bss segment" and "text segment". For details, refer to a.out(4).
An intermediate unit of information in a defined sequence identified by a data segment identifier.
A data segment consists of a segment identifier, one or more data elements, element separators, and a segment terminator.
The storage that is allocated to the data of a table, as compared to storage allocated to the indexes on a table. The data segment is made up of one or more data extents.
A data segment is one of the sections of a program in an object file or in memory, which contains the global variables that are initialized by the programmer. It has a fixed size, since all of the data in this section is set by the programmer before the program is loaded. However, it is not read-only, since the values of the variables can be altered at runtime.
