DATABASE MANAGEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does database management mean? 

• DATABASE MANAGEMENT (noun)
  The noun DATABASE MANAGEMENT has 1 sense:

1. creation and maintenance of a database

  Familiarity information: DATABASE MANAGEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DATABASE MANAGEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Creation and maintenance of a database

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("database management" is a kind of...):

direction; management (the act of managing something)

 Context examples 

Database management involves the design and maintenance of electronic data storage systems to facilitate and optimize the categorization, selection, and retrieval of information.

(Data Base Management, NCI Thesaurus)

A multi-user relational database management system for managing animal colonies in a research environment.

(Colony Management System, NCI Thesaurus)