A four-star general with over 30 years of military service makes $15,690.90 per month. That is an annual salary of $188,290.80.
Data is a plural of datum, which is originally a Latin noun meaning âsomething given.â Today, data is used in English both as a plural noun meaning âfacts or pieces of informationâ (These data are described more fully elsewhere) and as a singular mass noun meaning âinformationâ: Not much data is available on flood control in Brazil.
A database is an organized collection of data. The data can be textual, like order or inventory data, or it can be pictures, programs or anything else that can be stored on a computer in binary form. A relational database stores the data in the form of tables and columns.