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database management

British  

noun

  1. the maintenance of information stored in a computer system

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Elsewhere in the stack, Baillie owns model-developer Anthropic and Databricks, which makes software to support AI data management.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

And the potential benefits of dropping Excel can extend beyond easier data management.

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

AI agents are expected to drive the next wave of tech growth, benefiting Snowflake as a data management vendor.

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025

Regulators added that the company was “impaired from completing improvements in its data management, access, and deletion practices” following layoffs.

From Salon • Mar. 20, 2025

In order to realize what all this means, we can think of everything involved in the conception, design, manufacturing, distribution, and integration of computers in applications ranging from trivial data management to sophisticated simulations.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai

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