Field (computer science)
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In computer science, data that has several parts can be divided into fields. For example, a computer may represent today's date as three distinct fields: the day, the month, the year.
Programming languages usually have a record data type to represent composite data types as a series of fields.
Relational databases arrange data as sets of database records, also called rows. Each record consists of several fields; the fields of all records form a columns. A collection of similar information.
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