The phrase "a data item" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to data management, databases, or information systems when referring to a single piece of data.
Example: "In our database, each entry is considered a data item that contains specific attributes."
Alternatives: "a data point" or "a data entry".
Data items in COBOL are declared hierarchically through the use of level-numbers which indicate if a data item is part of another.
A data item can thus be placed and replicated where it is needed.
A user may read some value for a data item and then later read an older value.
A database is simply a set of data items, where a data item could be anything from a conventional file to a tuple in a relational database.
In addition to saving space in memory, Tardis also eliminates the need to broadcast invalidation messages to all the cores that are sharing a data item.
In cases where we have excluded a data item, we have normally recalculated its overall score in line with its other scores, or we have "patched" the data from last year.
We represent the execution of a pipeline using a directed acyclic graph of AND and OR nodes, where each node represents a data item produced by some operator in the pipeline.
In several cases, there was no direct association between a concept representing a consumed data item and a concept representing a produced data item.
There were cases where no direct association between a concept representing a consumed data item and a concept representing a produced data item were identified.
In two cases, there was no direct association between a concept representing a consumed data item and a concept representing a produced data item.
At the end of the equivalence table construction, ideally we should have mapped each concept representing a consumed data item to a corresponding concept from the reference ontology, which also corresponds to a concept representing a produced data item.
