(1) In
database management systems, a complete set of information. Records are composed of
fields, each of which contains one item of information. A set of records constitutes a
file. For example, a personnel file might contain records that have three fields: a name field, an address field, and a phone number field.
In relational database management systems, records are called tuples.
(2) Some programming languages allow you to define a special data structure called a record. Generally, a record is a combination of other data objects. For example, a record might contain three integers, a floating-point number, and a character string.
