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DATA DICTIONARY
It is the information age. ... It is our jobs as software developers to keep track of all this data and to organize it in a clear and manageable format. ... Being engineers, we have developed a clever tool to store data about the data: the data dictionary.
What is a data dictionary? ... Wertz, " a data dictionary is an organized reference to the data content of something. That something could be a program, a system, a data base, or a collection of all the files, programs, systems, data bases, and manual records maintained by a large corporation" (Wertz, pg. ... Typically, a data dictionary is used to define a database. The data dictionary contains a list of the files in the data dictionary, the number of records in each file, and the types and names of each field (webpedia. ... The dictionary does not have actual data from the database; it just has the information and details that explains the data.
Approximate Word count = 764
Approximate Pages = 3.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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