GLOSSARY
Access control The ability to manage which users or groups of users have the privilege to create, read, update or delete data that is held in a database.
Attribute Any detail that serves to qualify, identify, classify, quantify or express the state of a relation or an entity type.
Boyce–Codd normal form (BCNF) In relational data analysis, a relation is in Boyce–Codd normal form if every determinant is a candidate key.
CASE Acronym for Computer-Aided Software Engineering – a combination of software tools that assist computer development staff to engineer and maintain software systems, normally within the framework of a structured method.
Column The logical structure within a table of a relational database management system (RDBMS) that ...
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