Glossary
- boolean variable—
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A single computer bit that holds a true or false condition. Booleans are useful for holding the success or failure of a procedure, IF statement, and so on.
- clusters—
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A way of physically organizing two or more tables together that have common key fields and are commonly referenced together in the same SQL statement.
- COBOL—
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Short for COmmon Business Oriented Language. Popular for years in the mainframe-computing environment, this programming language handles the transfer of information between terminals and data storage, creates reports from data storage, and manipulates data in the data storage.
- compiler—
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A name for the interpreter that converts the program source code into something else, either p-code or machine language. ...
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