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The Basic Unit of Storage

Technically, data elements describe the logical unit of data, fields are the actual storage units, and data items are the individual instances of the data elements as in this example. In everyday language, all three terms are used interchangeably. When you read technical documentation on database management, you run across the proper use of these terms (maybe!).

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