database management system (DBMS)
Definition
Computer program that catalogs, indexes, locates, retrieves, and stores data, maintains its integrity, and outputs it in the form desired by a user. Unlike a data processing system (which manipulates and transforms data), a DBMS performs only minimal mathematical operations. Its overall purpose is to organize and manage data, and make it available on demand.
database management system (DBMS) is in the Computer Hardware, Software, & Security and Information Science & Technology subjects.
database management system (DBMS) appears in the definitions of the following terms: expert database system and database marketing
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