Labels:book | chat room | crt screen | hakham | monitor | plant | sky OCR: DATABASES 615 A field contains the smallest unit of meaningful information, so you might call it the basic building block for a structured file or database. Each field has unique field name that describes its contents. For example in an iTunes playlist the field called Name would hold the name OF song, the Time field holds the song length, the Artist field holds the name of the per- former, the Album field holds the name of the album that the song came from, and the Genre field holds the type of song A field can be variable length or fixed I length. variable-length field is like an accordion- it expands to fit the data you enter, up to some max imum number of characters. A fixed-length field contains predetermined num- ber of characters (bytes) The data you enter fixed-length field cannot ...
