data base

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"You can't get work because you are on the police data base and the authorities always have an eye on you..."

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025

Digging into Italy’s national health system data base, they tracked him down and took him into custody when he showed up for a treatment appointment.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2023

It’s hard to have an evolving conversation when his data base never changes.

From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2020

There have been 15 deals between the teams, according to the Baseball Reference data base, but six simply involved the sale of a player’s contract, with no player traded in return.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2020

RFC-882 and a number of others describe domain name service, a distributed data base system for mapping names into addresses.

From Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet by Krol, Ed