Re: Glossary 0.0.4 (repost)

Some acronyms that aren't explained (see below). Maybe they should be written out fully each time, with the abbreviation in brackets afterwards (since the list may not be read sequentially, and people wouldn't want to follow chains of links to expand all the acronyms).

Paul.

mAsterdam wrote:
> The glossary is not a dictionary or encyclopedia, such as
> FOLDOC, Wikipedia (http://www.wikipedia.org), and the Web

  ^^^^^^

> A DBMS should provide facilities to support this.

    ^^^^

> Thing of interest. (ISO)

                      ^^^



> [Information principle] (RM)


                           ^^



> [Table/Row/Column] (SQL-DBMS)


                      ^^^^^^^^



> 1. Set of possible values (i.e. IT equivalent of math 'domain').


                                  ^^



> [Type  - 3rdM]


           ^^^^

> It takes a *variable* and returns a pointer *value*.
> m.m. reference.
  ^^^

> in ER, RM has atomic ATTRIBUTES.

         ^^ Received on Thu May 26 2005 - 20:51:09 CEST