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In telecommunications, a data bank is a repository of information on one or more subjects that is organized in a way that facilitates local or remote information retrieval. A data bank may be either centralized or decentralized. In this sense, data bank is synonymous with database. In computers the databank is same as that of we use in telecommunication i.e. it is the repository of data.The data in the databank can be any data like credit card transaction of a store or it can be any data base of a company where 1000 of queries are being processed on daily bases.

Data bank may also refer to an organization primarily concerned with the construction and maintenance of a database.

Sources

  • Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from Federal Standard 1037C. General Services Administration. Archived from the original on 2022-01-22. (in support of MIL-STD-188).
  • The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin, 2000.