field
<data, database> An area of a database record, or graphical user
interface form, into which a particular item of data is entered.
Example usage: "The telephone number field is not really a numerical field",
"Why do we need a four-digit field for the year?".
A database column is the set of all instances of a given field from all records
in a table.
(1999-04-26)
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