Collection

Collection - The pickup of mail from street collection boxes, businesses, or customers on the street. This operation is usually scheduled to meet mail processing and dispatch requirements.

[Category=Postal ]

Source: USPS, 04 September 2009 12:28:07, http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub32/pub32a_g.html

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Collection - Human or machine based capture of data that is submitted in response to an agency requirement for data. Transfer of data between systems is not a data collection under this definition, nor are mathematical operations that may be involved to produce an actual data element required for submission to the Agency.

Source: Public Schools of North Carolina, 21 April 2010 10:06:11, http://www.ncpublicschools.org/data/management/glossary/

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Collection - A set of data that resulted from a DBMS query.

[Category=Information Management ]

Source: Information-Management.com, 07 June 2010 09:55:30, http://www.information-management.com/glossary/c.html

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Collection - A set of data that resulted from a DBMS

query. [Category=Data Warehousing ]

Source: Sun.com, 19 July 2010 08:53:23, http://www.sun.com/third-party/dw/brochures/67198.Acrobat.pdf

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Collection - A set of data that resulted from a DBMS query. [Data Management]

Source: DataMentors, 15 August 2010 10:20:12, http://www.datamentors.com/News-and-Resources/Glossary.html

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Collection - A set of data that resulted from a DBMS query.

[Category=Data Warehousing ]

Source: Aexis Business Intelligence, 11 November 2010 09:05:50, http://www.aexis.eu/DataWarehouse-Glossary/