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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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Ellison co-founded Oracle Corporation, a software and database management giant, in 1977 and served as CEO until 2014.

From Seattle Times Jan. 17, 2024

What it is: A cloud computing and database management company that has captured 3.9 percent of the global market for enterprise cloud software.

From Slate Jan. 15, 2020

Consultants uncovered familiar weaknesses: the budget system operated on a platform dating from 2000, and the version of the database management system should have been upgraded in 2006.

From Reuters Aug. 1, 2017

But behind every product search on Amazon, movie recommendation on Netflix or bid on eBay, there is a flood of digital communications mediated by database management software, which owes an intellectual debt to Mr. Bachman.

From New York Times Jul. 16, 2017

Several projects have been under way at the CTT for electronic document archiving and retrieval, bilingual/multilingual text alignment, computer-assisted translation, translation memory and terminology database management, and speech recognition.

From The Internet and Languages [around the year 2000] by Lebert, Marie

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