Appendix F. Glossary
- alias
Another name or term for a table or column.
- ANSI
American National Standards Institute.
- application
A set of menus, forms, reports, and code that performs a business function using a database.
- buffer
An area in memory for editing or execution of SQL.
- Cartesian product
The result of not joining tables in the WHERE clause of an SQL statement. When tables in a query are not joined, every row in one table is paired with every row in all other tables.
- client
The client is typically a PC, but can be another server that is dependent on another computer for data, services, or processing.
- column
A part of a table that has a name and a specific data type.
- COMMIT
Makes changes to data permanent.
- composite index
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