Business Driven Technology
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Program Plan Intro
Data
- It is the representation of objects and events which are stored and recorded in the computer.
- It exists in variety of forms such as number, value, variable, and so on.
- For example,
database in doctor’s office contains data such as patient name, address, disease, and contact number. - Data about the facts is called as structured data.
- In addition to structured data, database includes documents, e-mails, maps, images, sound and video segment called as unstructured data.
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