relational database
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- noun
- /rɪˈleɪʃənəl ˈdeɪtəˌbeɪs/
- Specialized
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base de datos relacional
- Still, you could argue that a relational database management system might be useful for small offices.
- relational database system
- relational database management
- relational database model
Excel's great as well, so, but it's just not as rich a programming model as VBA combined with a relational database.
- Excel's great as well, so, but it's just not as rich a programming model as VBA combined with a relational database.
Examples
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The data collected during the interviews were entered and managed in a relational database.
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The ES knowledge base was capable of interfacing with the tables in the relational database.
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Here, the tool was a relational database management system.
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Identify the tables, primary keys, and foreign keys required to implement the model into a relational database.
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A data management layer employs a single or federated relational database management system.
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The aerobiology knowledge base is organized and managed using a set of relational databases.
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In contrast, the ice phenology workshop data sets were incorporated into a relational database.
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Upon arrival, the appropriate data is filtered out, extracted, and placed in a relational database.
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The model preserves unsummarized information about an organization's activities and is the basis for implementing a relational database.
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The customer information is stored in a relational database, allowing easy access to related entries.
Antonyms
How Relational
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly built from 'relational' (pertaining to relationships) + 'database' (a collection of data), so its meaning — a database organized around relationships between data items — is compositionally predictable. Although somewhat technical, the semantic relation is transparent and follows common cross-linguistic logic, so a learner who knows both constituent words can infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Relational database comes from thinking of information as simple tables that relate to each other. Imagine stacks of index cards with the same ID number; when you match the cards they 'connect', so the system shows related facts across tables. That's why a relational database means a database made of tables that are 'related'.