Definition of "database" []

• A collection of data arranged for ease and speed of search and retrieval. Also called data bank. (noun)
• To put (data) into a database. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The $database value is derived from user input when the script is first called. tables: The collection of tables available in the database specified in"
• "The next statement uses the databases property ($db. databases) of the Server object to retrieve (from the databases collection) the database specified in the $database parameter."
• "$database: The specific database that contains the target collection of objects, such as tables and views."