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'Fragments' often referred to as 'Frags' (alongside [[Item| Items]] are one 'atomic' particles of data in ARK. Fragments contain snippets of the data for a record which broadly corresponds with the idea of a column or field in a normal database. Each fragment is represented by a single row in one of the [[Data Class]] tables in the database and is indentified by a unique row id or 'Fragment ID'. Each Fragment must be linked to either another [[Item]] by its itemkey/itemvalue pair, or to another fragment in what is termed a [[Chain]]. In the case of chains, the itemkey/value pair is filled with the table name/fragment id of the linked fragment.

Fragments contain the pieces of data that go to make up a record, this might be snippets of text or dates or linked [[Actors]] undertaking an action. Within each [[Data Class]] different types of teh same fragment are identified by [[Class Type]].

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86.31.103.134 at 09:28, 3 June 2007