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relational database

n.
A database system in which any field can be a component of more than one of the database's tables.
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rela′tional da′tabase


n.
an electronic database comprising multiple files of related information, usu. stored in tables of rows (records) and columns (fields), and allowing a link to be established between separate files that have a matching field, as a column of invoice numbers, so that the two files can be queried simultaneously by the user.
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Noun1.relational database - a database in which relations between information items are explicitly specified as accessible attributes; "in a relational database the data are organized as a number of differently sized tables"
computer database, electronic database, electronic information service, on-line database - (computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers
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relační databáze
relaatiotietokanta
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In 1970, Edgar Codd has proposed a more efficient data-storage method--the relational model. This model was also using SQL to allow applications to find table stored data.
Each relational model is oriented in opposition to another model, such that the theory includes two pairs of models.
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For example, the meta-model for the relational model (Figure 10), which describes the elements that a relational database schema can have, can be defined at this level.
Both argue--Conrad through a general discussion of Germany's colonial entanglements and Randeria through a focused examination of specifically Indian forms of communitarian civil society--for a relational model that focuses on mutual and unequal exchanges functioning outside the framework of the nation.
It is understood now that relational databases are not the be-all and end-all, for many purposes a relational model is not required, inefficient or just counter-intuitive.
A relational model of spiritual dwelling and seeking (Wuthnow, 1998; Shults & Sandage, 2006) drawing on theology and social science was used to conceptualize this study of spiritual factors hypothesized to be positively and negatively associated with dispositional forgiveness.
We are more concerned in matching schemas of relational model since this model is the most dominant model and many database applications; especially applications for distributed environment are still adopting this model [7].
(6) Studies in the use of the relational model became the gender-specific model adopted by the program.
RDBMS is a database system that maintains and manipulates data repository based on relational model (Codd, 1970).
In this work, a single fuzzy relational model is used to model both the fault-free and faulty behavior of the system.
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