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ACRONYMS USED IN THIS BOOK

3DES Triple Data Encryption Standard
4GL fourth-generation language
5GL fifth-generation language
1NF first normal form
2NF second normal form
3NF third normal form
4NF fourth normal form
5NF fifth normal form; see also PJNF
6NF sixth normal form
 
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ACID Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability (properties of transactions)
ACM Association for Computing Machinery
AES Advanced Encryption Standard (also known as Rijndael)
AI Artificial Intelligence
AIA America Invents Act of 2011
AIPA American Inventors Protection Act
ANSI American ...

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