Most companies in the current database actually own more brands than Buycott has on record.

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For recruiters, LinkedIn is the largest ( now 200 million members) and most current database of business professionals in the world.

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The bill also amends the current DNA database regime, bringing it in line with the Scottish model.

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Instead of trying to revamp JIMS with brand-new technology, Harris County has stuck to its grand-design architecture by migrating its legacy database to the more current Model 204 Database Management System, made by Computer Corporation of America, and rewriting Cobol applications in the Model 204 language.

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Consider the application UpToDate, an expensive subscription database and the go-to source for current medical information.

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That database would not be a registry because it would not identify any current owners.

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FINRA, which is a self-regulatory organization that oversees brokerage firms and their employees, maintains the database that stores some vital information on about 1.3 million current and former FINRA-stockbrokers and 17, 000 current and former FINRA-registered brokerage firms.

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To provide answers that aren't already in Google's ever-expanding database, the company will blend new semantic-search technology with its current system to better recognize the value of information on websites and figure out which ones to show in search results.

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The government says current house swap schemes are "patchy" in nature and the new National Home Swap database will be open to all eight million tenants in social housing in England.

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