Index

Abbreviations

in field names, 210

in field specifications, 292

in final table list, 195–96

Acronyms

in field names, 210

in field specifications, 292

in final table list, 195–96

Action-oriented questions, 344

Addition (+), 306

Aerodynamic theories, 31

Aggregate views, 454–58

Aliases, 289–91

Alphanumeric data, 296

Alternate keys, 268, 300

American National Standards Institute (ANSI), 22, 294

Analytical database, 4–5

designing, 501–2

Anomalies, using ideal field to resolve, 213–16

Ansa Software, 19

Application development, xliii

Application oriented business rules, 407–9

Application problems, xxxviii–xxxix

Application program, reviewing, 505

Approximate numeric data type, 295

Artificial candidate keys, 259–61

Ashton-Tate, 19

Associative questions, ...

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