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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

hierarchical database

View image A database where the data is held in a tree structure. Each data item can be thought of by users as existing on one of a number of levels. There are links to related data items at the higher level and sometimes at a lower level. The data items at a lower level hold more detail about the item that they are linked to above.

Related terms
treedatabaseflat file databaserelational database
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