Attribute
An attribute is a characteristic or a property that is inherent in an application. A myriad of attributes exist in word processing, database systems, database management systems, and DOS ope...
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Databases
The word "datum" is considered, according to dictionary definition, to be "an item of factual information." Multiple instances of this are denoted by the plural, "data." However, although th...
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Databases
With the rise of business data-processing systems on a very large scale during the 1960s and 1970s came the development of databases and database management systems. Databases are large coll...
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A mother and daughter separated decades ago during El Salvador's brutal civil war have become among the first to find each other _ and the answers they longed for _ thanks to a DNA database.Angela ...
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The Bush administration has put a federal database containing sensitive financial information about college students off limits to lenders _ at least for now.Typically, lenders and guarantee agenci...
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The Pentagon's new intelligence undersecretary is recommending the Defense Department shut down a controversial classified database that has been criticized for improperly collecting information on...
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The British government said Sunday it was ordering a review of all criminal databases after acknowledging that files on hundreds of criminals were not entered into police computers.The government i...
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The top law enforcement officials in the European Union backed efforts Monday to give police across the bloc access to national databases containing fingerprints, DNA samples and license plate info...
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The top law enforcement officials in the European Union backed efforts Monday to give police across the bloc access to national databases containing fingerprints, DNA samples and license plate info...
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Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and IBM are vying for a multibillion-dollar contract to build a database for fingerprints and other biometric information that the FBI is set to award this week.Lo...
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Since 1968, federal law has prohibited the sale of guns to anyone adjudged mentally ill. But more than half the states cannot _ or will not _ supply the necessary mental health records to the FBI d...
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