1) In computer data processing, a record is a collection of data items arranged for
processing by a program. Multiple records
are contained in a file or data
set. The organization of data in the record is usually prescribed by the programming language that
defines the record's organization and/or by the application that processes it. Typically, records
can be of fixed-length or be of variable length with the length information contained within the
record.
2) In a database, a record (sometimes called a row) is a group of fields within a table that are relevant to a specific
entity. For
example, in a table called customer contact information, a row would likely contain fields
such as: ID number, name, street address, city, telephone number
and so on.
3) In Virtual Telecommunications Access Method, IBM's proprietary telecommunications access
method for mainframes and part of its Systems Network Architecture (SNA), a
record is the unit of data that is transmitted from sender to receiver.
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