Database

The process of finding, selecting and organizing the 'intellectual capital' of a company; whether that is files in a database, or the information lodged in each employee’s brain; and then presenting that knowledge in a way that helps employees understand and act on that information.

Specific procedures used to recover the correct state of the database if an error occurs in the hardware or software.

A request for information from a database.

An architecture where applications can run on a variety of leading hardware and database platforms without the need for changes to the application programs. For example, an application that can run on Oracle or SQL would be considered open from a database platform perspective.

A collective set of multiple data sets organized by tables, records and columns. RDBs establish a well-defined relationship between database tables. Tables communicate and share information, which facilitates data searchability, organization and reporting. The most popular type of database used to store data for Human Resource applications. It conforms to a relational model that includes the use of data elements as common keys to enable table joins.