In DBMS, the term 'table' refers to:
In DBMS, the term 'table' refers to Attributes or records and Physical address of records.
A table is a collection of related data held in a structured format within a database.
1) Attributes or records:-
An attribute is a characteristic. In a database management system (DBMS), an attribute refers to a database component, such as a table. It also may refer to a database field. Attributes describe the instances in the row of a database.
A table consists of several records (row), each record can be broken down into several smaller parts of data known as Attributes.
2) physical address of records:-
In sequential organization records are physically stored in a specified order according to a key field in each record.
In the indexed-sequential files method, records are physically stored in sequential order on a magnetic disk or other direct access storage device based on the key field of each record.