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Every week, we present the best new watch releases on the planet from the likes of Tudor, Jaeger-LeCoultre and Cartier. This week, there's a surprise two-tone Omega Seamaster, Detrash unveils its first ever California dial and Breitling drops its latest Superocean Heritage

Data access is a generic term referring to a process which has both an IT-specific meaning and other connotations involving access rights in a broader legal and/or political sense. In the former it typically refers to software and activities related to storing, retrieving, or acting on data housed in a database or other repository. Details Two fundamental types of data access exist: sequential access (as in magnetic tape, for example) random access (as in indexed media) Data access crucially involves authorization to access different data repositories. Data access can help distinguish the abilities of administrators and users. For example, administrators may have the ability to remove, edit and add data, while general users may not even have "read" rights if they lack access to particular information. Historically, each repository (including each different database, file system, etc.), might require the use of different methods and languages, and many of these repositories stored their content in different and incompatible formats. Over the years standardized languages, methods, and...