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"A database is self-describing in that it contains, in addition to data, a description of its own structure. It includes a set of system catalog tables, which describe the logical and physical structure of the data; a configuration file, which contains the parameter values associated with the database; and a recovery log, which records ongoing transactions and transactions that can be archived."(IBM).

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