Storage record




In computer science[citation needed], a storage record is:



  • A group of related data, words, or fields treated as a meaningful unit; for instance, a Name, Address, and Telephone Number can be a "Personal Record".

  • A self-contained collection of information about a single object; a record is made up of a number of distinct items, called fields.

  • In IBM mainframes, a record is a basic unit of device-to-program data transfers. Mainframe files, properly called data sets, are traditionally structured collections of records, as opposed to modern byte stream access files. Records may have a fixed length or variable length.


In Unix-like systems, a number of programs (for example, awk, join, and sort) are designed to process data consisting of records (called lines) each separated by newlines, where each record may contain a number of fields separated by spaces, commas, or some other character.



See also



  • Block (data storage)

  • Object composition

  • Record (computer science)

  • Row (database)

  • User-defined type








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