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In a table, what is a field?

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A field is a single named piece of data in a table.

- In database terms a field is an attribute/column of the table (e.g., FirstName, Email).
- Each row (record) contains one value for each field; the intersection of a row and a field is a cell (the field value).
- Fields usually have a name and a data type (text, integer, date, etc.).

Example: In a Contacts table the fields might be FirstName, LastName, Phone. A record could be (John, Doe, 555‑1234); the value "555‑1234" is the Phone field value for that record.