as in information
a collection of pieces of information that is organized and used on a computer
All of our customers' information was kept in a database. an online database
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And that's before factoring in an error in the data published on DOGE's website that mislabels a contract as $8 billion, which was later corrected in the federal database to only be $8 million.
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Andre Tartar Bloomberg News (tns), arkansasonline.com, 20 Feb. 2025
The company’s management forecasts a doubling of revenue within five years as customers increasingly migrate their on-premises databases to cloud platforms.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
The sister has 1,527 recipes in our New York Times Cooking database.
—Kim Severson, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
But archiving interactive web services that are driven by databases poses a challenge.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 Feb. 2025
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Andre Tartar Bloomberg News (tns), arkansasonline.com, 20 Feb. 2025
The company’s management forecasts a doubling of revenue within five years as customers increasingly migrate their on-premises databases to cloud platforms.
—Trefis Team, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
The sister has 1,527 recipes in our New York Times Cooking database.
—Kim Severson, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
But archiving interactive web services that are driven by databases poses a challenge.
—IEEE Spectrum, 19 Feb. 2025
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“Database.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/database. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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