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Programs are collections of instructions for manipulating data.
Strictly speaking, data is the plural of datum , a single piece of information. In practice, however, people use data as both the singular and plural form of the word. In database management systems , data files are the files that store the database information, whereas other files, such as index files and data dictionaries, store administrative information, known as metadata . Corp. All Rights Reserved.