Field
A single named piece of information in a record, such as the email address of one customer. The word is also used loosely to mean the whole column.
Where it comes up
- Multiple values in one cellA single cell holds a list, or two different facts, joined by a comma, slash, or line break.
See also
- ColumnOne vertical slice of a table, holding the same kind of fact for every row: every customer's city, every order's total.
- RecordOne row of a table: the set of values that together describe a single thing, such as one customer or one transaction.
- SchemaThe declared structure of a dataset: its columns, their names and types, and the rules they must satisfy.