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📖What it means
One stored field — a column, in a table, in a database, owned by a service. It is what the Data Dictionary's Data view registers, and it is a different kind of thing from a term: a term is a word, a data element is a place data sits.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Term
A term is a word that means something; a data element is a field that holds something.
Not: Measure
A data element is stored; a measure is computed and judged against a target.
Not: App Handbook row
A data element is any stored field; a handbook row explains a number a person can SEE.
🗣️Also called
fieldcolumnattribute