Data access
SOFTWARE AND ACTIVITIES RELATED TO STORING, RETRIEVING, OR ACTING ON DATA HOUSED IN A DATABASE OR OTHER REPOSITORY
Data access method
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.