database dictionary

This pre-established query command is kept in the database dictionary.

A data dictionary or database dictionary is a file that defines the basic organization of a database.

A database dictionary contains a list of all files in the database, the number of records in each file, and the names and types of each data field.

A medical decision support system at Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden comprises a clinical data base, Medical database dictionary, and a knowledge base component.

Both a master dictionary (or repository) and data dictionary store meta data, definitions of data and processing, though the repository - a marketing term invented by IBM - includes the ability to store CASE objects as well as simpler definitions from 4GL or database dictionaries.