The online system could not access their records due to the way they were stored on HMRC's main database, she added.

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That goal could prove to be elusive, for Ellison's main database business, still nearly two-thirds of revenue, grows only 3% a year, according to Citigroup.

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MusicFile also has an auction section, but its main feature is a database of millions of titles offered for sale by hundreds of importers, collectors, and small businesses.

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Silva, former National Security Agency official now at VeriSign, the main operator of the Internet-address database that directs billions of digital packets around the world every day.

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In a data warehouse, the main mode of access is a relational database storage paradigm, in which the structure of the data was predetermined at the time the database was designed.

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My main issue with this that I think it would be difficult to protect patient privacy or to run this giant database.

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