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The Relational Database Dictionary, Extended Edition
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The Relational Database Dictionary, Extended Edition

by C.J. Date
July 2008
Intermediate to advanced
230 pages
4h 33m
English
Apress
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Chapter 23. V

value An "individual constant" (e.g., the integer value 3). Values can be of arbitrary complexity (they can be scalar or nonscalar; note in particular that tuples and relations are both values). Values have no location in time or space; however, they can be represented in memory by means of some encoding, and those representations do have locations in time and spaceindeed, distinct representations of the same value can appear at any number of distinct locations in time and space, meaning, loosely, that the same value can appear as the current value of any number of distinct variables, and/or as any number of attribute values within the current value of any number of distinct tuplevars or relvars, at the same time or different times. ...

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