Cris Carampa schreef:
> Randy wrote:
>
>> I am getting confused as to what is the difference between an attribute
>> and an element. People seem to use the terms all over the place. I
>> googled it and it seems that attribute is the correct term. I had
>> someone even say that attribute are groups of elements ... Anybody know
>> of a definitive site for the nomenclature?
>
> No, but AFAIR the correct terms should be "table/columns" for physical
> database and "entity/attributes" for ER-diagram.
>
> Kind regards,
>
And tuple for the cross section of a row and a column.
Think of it as a table cell in html.
That would be consistent with attributes being groups of elements.
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Regards,
Frank van Bortel
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Received on Fri Jun 30 2006 - 13:06:02 CDT
