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SQL Server
10 Jan 2006
WORD - SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) from Microsoft that's designed for the enterprise environment. SQL Server runs on T-SQL (Transact -SQL), a set of programming extensions from Sybase and Microsoft ...
full-text database
13 Sep 2005
WORD - A full-text database is a compilation of documents or other information in the form of a database in which the complete text of each referenced document is available for online viewing, printing, or downloading. In addition ...
intelligent database
13 Sep 2005
WORD - An intelligent database is a full-text database that employs artficial intelligence (AI), interacting with users to ensure that returned items (hits) contain the most relevant information possible. This is in contrast to a ...
entity-relationship model
09 Feb 2004
WORD - The entity-relationship model (or ER model) is a way of graphically representing the logical relationships of entities (or objects) in order to create a database. The ER model was first proposed by Peter Pin-Shan Chen of ...
DDBMS
28 Oct 2003
WORD - A DDBMS (distributed database management system) is a centralized application that manages a distributed database as if it were all stored on the same computer. The DDBMS synchronizes all the data periodically, and in cases ...
Quiz: Database Basics
23 Sep 2002
WORD - Directions: - After reading the question, click on the answer that you think is correct. If the answer you've chosen is correct, you will see the question text at the beginning of the definition. -- OR -- Check your ...
OLE DB
30 Jul 2001
WORD - OLE DB is Microsoft's strategic low-level application program interface (API) for access to different data sources. OLE DB includes not only the Structured Query Language (SQL) capabilities of the Microsoft-sponsored ...
comma-separated values file
20 Aug 2003
WORD - In computers, a CSV (comma-separated values) file contains the values in a table as a series of ASCII text lines organized so that each column value is separated by a comma from the next column's value and each row starts a ...
application server
30 Apr 2003
WORD - An application server is a server program in a computer in a distributed network that provides the business logic for an application program. The application server is frequently viewed as part of a three-tier application, ...
relational database management system
07 Jul 2003
WORD - A relational database management system (RDBMS) is a program that lets you create, update, and administer a relational database. Most commercial RDBMS's use the Structured Query Language (SQL) to access the database, although ...


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