Generali says its employees have been transferring Holocaust-era policies on to computer files and are now close to completing their database.

ECONOMIST: Insurance and the Holocaust

By incorporating software that allows traditional files to be stored and managed by the database, Oracle 8i also removes the need for a big, all-purpose operating system, such as Windows 2000.

ECONOMIST: Software

We know that when the police re-opened the Lawrence files and started afresh in 2006, there were almost 200 potential suspects on the database.

BBC: Analysis: Where now for Lawrence investigation?

Database is a data storage mechanism, which stores data logically and physically in the form of data files.

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