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In a DB2 table, a specific type of data that is named and whose values are contained in zero or more rows.
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The container for a single item of information in a row. Also known as field.
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A column is a listing of data for a single attribute that has been retrieved from the Data Warehouse by a query. If several attributes are selected for a query, each attribute will have one column in the query results.
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A column is a distinct field in a table that has a specific data type.
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The various subsections of a database table, each containing a piece of information. actor_id, first_name and last_name are the columns in the actors table. In some database systems, a column is called a field.
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A means of implementing an item of data within a table or view. It can be character, date, number or other format, and be optional or mandatory. Oracle, 1998. ()
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An element of a table containing a list of data items of the same type.
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In a relational database, fields are commonly represented as columns abd may be referred to as “columns”.
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A set of one or more subdisks within a striped plex. Striping is achieved by allocating data alternately and evenly across the columns within a plex.
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a DBCS-open database field
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an index container that contains a homogeneous data structure, such as integers, floating point values or string
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a sequence of all the values in a given data element
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a set of data values that represents a particular type of data, for example, the price of all the houses
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a single data item having a name, type, and value
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a single piece of data - for example, magnitude or sky position
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A location within a database table that stores a particular type of data (for example, the firstname column in the authors table of the pubs sample database). The logical equivalent of a field. Individual columns have their own specifications as to data type (for example, binary, character, integer, and so on) and maximum length. These are called column properties.
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data element or field, A basic unit of data that can be identified and described (Synonyms: data element;field)
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A database table will usually consist of many rows and columns, just like a table in a book. Each column will store information about an attribute. A table of people may have columns for height, hair colour, eye colour
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See Attribute.
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Name given by a user to a field in a relational database. 13.22
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also a field or attribute, a unit of data in a record
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The physical implementation of a data element or attribute.
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In a relational database, the dimension of a table that holds values for a particular attribute. For example, a table that contains employee records might have a column titled LAST_NAME that contains the values for each employee's last name. Attribute-In Entity-Relationship modeling, is an identifiable characteristic of an entity. For example, lastName can be an attribute of an Employee entity. An attribute typically corresponds to a column in a database table.
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A field in a database table.
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Data structure that contains an individual data item within a row (record), model equivalent of a database field. OR Is the name for a field in a RDBMS. A column is a physical implementation of an Attribute.
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In SQL, a field or attribute. The smallest unit of data in a row.
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A column of cells within a table.
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In DBMS, this is considered to be a named member of a row. See also: row  table
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GTK+ contains several widgets which display data in columns, e.g. the GtkTreeView. These view columns in the tree view are represented by GtkTreeViewColumn objects inside GTK+. They should not be confused with model columns which are used to organize the data in tree models. See Also model-view widget.
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Attribute for relational databases.
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Component of a relational table (the other is called a row). Every table in a relational database has one or more columns. A column is named and contains related information. In non-relational terminology, a column can be thought of as a field.
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Database tables are composed of individual columns corresponding to the attributes of the object.
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In the context of a relational database table, a column is a set of data values of a particular simple type, one for each row of the table.The term "column" also has equivalent application in other, more generic contexts. See e.g., Flat file database, Table (information). The columns provide the structure according to which the rows are composed.
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