A record.
A data point in a database is referred to as a field. It represents a single piece of data about a specific entity or object within a database.
Rows are for storing data. Excel is not technically a database, but often a set of data in a row is like a record in a database, with a related set of data all being in the one row.
Database comprises of records that are related to each other. In database the data is stored in the form of tables, are called database tables .
A database is simply a collection of pieces of information (data). A text file storing names and phone numbers is a database. A database management system (DBMS) is some software that manages the data within the database such as MySQL. Both the software and the database are considered together when thinking of a DBMS.
The terms instance and database are closely related, but don't refer to the same thing. The database is the set of files where application data (the reason for a database) and meta data is stored. An instance is the software (and memory) that Oracle uses to manipulate the data in the database. In order for the instance to be able to manipulate that data, the instance must open the database. A database can be opened (or mounted) by more than one instance, however, an instance can open at most one database.
We know a database is one that stores data related to each other. A network database is just like network database only difference between them is, in network database records are connected by means of a link.
A database is made up of related Schemas and Tables. A single database can have multiple schemas and each schema can have multiple tables inside it. All of these can be related to one another using referential constraints like foreign keys.
Oracle is a database. Oracle is a Relational Database Management System which is a specialized implementation of a database. It is designed to hold data that is related to one another and organized in the form of schemas and tables.
A relational database is a type of database, so in one sense there is no difference. There are various kinds of database. A relational database is one type. Others include network and hierarchical.
There are many different job choices within the field of data management. Data entry, data anaylist, database administrator and data specialist are just a few of the different jobs one can find within that field.
Data redundancy is a data organization issue that allows the unnecessary duplication of data within your Microsoft Access database. A change or modification, to redundant data, requires that you make changes to multiple fields of a database. While this is the expected behaviour for flat file database designs and spreadsheets, it defeats the purpose of relational database designs. The data relationships, inherent in a relational database, should allow you to maintain a single data field, at one location, and make the database's relational model responsible to port any changes, to that data field, across the database. Redundant data wastes valuable space and creates troubling database maintenance problems
In database there are number of issues to be handled ,like redundant data, inconsistent data, unorganized data etc. Redundancy of data is the repetitive data that is taking the storage unnecessarily . So the redundant data must be removed or at least reduced.