A single row in a database table or dataset, representing one instance of the entity being tracked.
A record collects all the information about one thing — one person, one transaction, one property, one event. In a spreadsheet, a record is a row. In a database, it is a row in a table. Each column in that row holds a different attribute of that entity.
Example: In a dataset of registered businesses, each record represents one business. The record contains the business name, address, licence type, registration date, and status — all the attributes of that single business.
The number of records in a dataset tells you how many instances were captured. A dataset with 500,000 records of property assessments covers 500,000 individual properties.