Record

Record is one type of an item in database. There is a wide variety of such"records", but the most common type, the one relational databases support isan instance of the other kind of record. It may also be defined as anaggregation of several items of possibly different types; the items beingaggregated are called ''fields'' and are usually identified or indexed by''field labels''. Generally, the fields in a record are related, alldescribing different properties of a single conceptual object. For example,we might have a record describing an employee, with a string field with thelabel ''name'', and an integer field with the label ''age''.